title: New approaches to ecological oncology.
abstract: A definition of ecological oncology is given and its subject is discussed. Primary attention is paid to insufficiently studied aspects of this novel scientific discipline: the influence of carcinogens on the natural biocenoses and their role in the evolutional processes, the transformation of carcinogens by living organisms, and the ecological monitoring of environmental carcinogenic substances.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Ecology and Carcinogenesis, R.E. Kavetsky Institute for Oncology Problems, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, USSR.
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Rubenchik
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002274:Carcinogens, Environmental / Q000378:metabolism / Q000633:toxicity*; D004463:Ecology; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*
chemical_list: D002274:Carcinogens, Environmental