Normal growth and cancer / Grace Medes and Stanley P. Reimann.

Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1963.

xiv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Cancer as conceived previous to the microscope -- 2. Development of optical instruments -- 3. Radioactivity -- 4. The living machine -- 5. Glycolysis and Warburg's theory of carcinogenesis -- 6. Life substances -- 7. Nucleic Acids, What is "Living?" -- 8. Chromosomes -- 9. Chromosomes and enzymes -- 10. Integration of an organism -- 11. Hormones and modes of action -- 12. The making of a cancer -- 13. Estrogens as carcinogens -- 14. Immunity and tolerance -- 15. The virus -- 16. The bacteriophage -- 17. Leukemia -- 18. Viral carcinogenesis -- 19. Viral carcinogenesis in nonleukemic tissues -- Bibliographic index -- Index of subjects.