The Growth of Human Tumours in Laboratory Animals
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grows. Another line of attack on this problem is that of transplanting human tumours into laboratory animals. This provides a means of studying the effects of certain chemicals, hormones and viruses on human breast cancer outside the patient and gives a laboratory testing-ground for them before trial on patients. This paper describes briefly how human tumours can be grown in rats and hamsters for this purpose. The method is not new for in 1913 Carrel and Burrows working in this country showed that human tumours could be grown when implanted into animals-
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دوره 71 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1956