Comparative Aspects of Tumor Development

A. Taxonomic Aspects.- 1. Neoplastic dissemination and spreading from the viewpoint of comparative pathology: Differences and similarities between animals and plants.- 2. Review of selected aspects of neoplastic progression in the mammalian orders.- 3. Neoplastic progression in plants.- 4. Selected aspects of neoplastic progression in mollusks.- 5. Leucoses in invertebrates.- 6. Metastasis of invertebrate neoplasms.- 7. Selected aspects of neoplastic growth in arthropods.- 8. Metastases in fish.- 9. Metastases in amphibians.- 10. Selected aspects of neoplastic progression in reptiles.- 11. Lymphocytic neoplasms in reptiles and fish.- 12. Spread and metastasis of tumors in birds.- 13. Progression of avian lymphoid leucosis.- 14. Immunologic aspects of neoplastic progression in Marek's disease.- 15. Feather-pulp lesions during the course of Marek's disease virus-induced lymphoma formation in chickens.- 16. Testicular tumors: Species and strain variations.- 17. Species-specific interaction of the breast and the lymphatic system (lymph nodes) in mammalian tumorigenesis.- 18. Multiple endocrine syndrome in SHN mice: Mammary tumors and uterine adenomyosis.- 19. Etiology, morphology and pathogenesis of proliferative and hyperplastic lesions and neoplasms of mouse mammary gland.- 20. Comparative aspects of mammary cancer.- 21. Cardiac tumors in laboratory rodents - Comparative pathology.- 22. Progression of cancer in domestic animals (except poultry).- 23. Chemoreceptor neoplasia: Comparative features in laboratory animals, domestic animals, and man.- 24. Bovine lymphoma - Epidemiology, diagnosis, transmission, pathology.- B. Environment Oncology or Specific aspects of Environmental Chain Reaction.- 25. Introduction: Geologic and technologic-cultural changes and their implications for species-specific cancer progression.- 26. Spontaneous tumors of free-ranging terrestrial mammals of North America.- 27. Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon residues in shellfish: Species variations and apparent intraspecific differences.- 28. The human population - A final receptor for chemical contaminants.- 29. Chemical carcinogens in plants and interaction with viruses and cancer causation.