作者: G. I. Obrams , Michael Potter
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摘要: This volume is the result of a workshop, sponsored by National Cancer Institute in March 1990, which explored epidemiology multiple myeloma. The papers included this address differences immunologic factors and risk for myeloma between blacks whites, describe monoclonal gammopathies their progression to myeloma, speculate on hypotheses regarding etiology pathogenesis challenging malignancy. Questions that are addressed include whether neoplastic change occurs at level plasma cell or earlier B-cell lineage, role inappropriate gene expression, importance IL-6 production, new findings cytogenetics Key directions research related malignancies also suggested.