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Phenomenon of Tumour Transfer by Skin Grafting

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Breyere and Williams1 found that solid lymphomata grew from a skin graft transplanted syngeneically from mice with Moloney leukaemia in twenty-two cases out of fifty. In syngeneic transplantation of skin from donors with solid transplantable tumours we have casually observed a similar phenomenon.

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  1. Breyere, E. J., and Williams, L. B., Science, 146, 1005 (1964).

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MKHEIDZE, D., LIOZNER, A. Phenomenon of Tumour Transfer by Skin Grafting. Nature 214, 730 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214730a0

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