Title

A Historical Perspective on Cancer

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Rafael D, Sorkin, Syracuse University. Department of Physics

Document Type

Report

Date

2000

Keywords

Biological physics. medical physics, cell behavior, molecular networks, tissues and organs

Language

English

Disciplines

Cancer Biology | Cell and Developmental Biology

Description/Abstract

It is proposed that cancer results from the breakdown of universal control mechanisms which developed in mutual association as part of the historical process that brought individual cells together into multi-cellular communities. By systematically comparing the genomes of uni-celled with multi-celled organisms, one might be able to identify the most promising sites for intervention aimed at restoring the damaged control mechanisms and thereby arresting the cancer.

Additional Information

3 pages, plainTeX, no figures

Recommended Citation

Sorkin, Rafael D,, "A Historical Perspective on Cancer" (2000). Physics - All Scholarship. 15.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/15

Source

Metadata from ArXiv.org