title: Causes of cervical carcinoma: new ideas.
abstract: There are many features of cervical cancer that distinguish it from other common human cancers. It is extraordinarily sensitive to environmental variation, thus coming under early notice by the epidemiologists. Its accessibility and the introduction of aids to visualization, such as the colposcope, have enabled us to combine the methods of epidemiology and molecular biology in studying disease. This combination may well untangle one of the more serious conceptual problems in contemporary biology - the real nature of the carcinogenic process and all this in man himself.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000378:metabolism; D004467:Economics; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004273:DNA, Neoplasm