ReviewEvolution, medicine, and public health2018
Cancer cell transmission via the placenta.
Review in Evolution, medicine, and public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Acute leukemia during pregnancy: a single center experience with 23 cases, 2012-2022 and literature review.Annals of medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Transplacental cancer transmission: a comprehensive review focusing on mechanisms, challenges, and maternal-fetal outcomes.Journal of the Turkish German Gynecological Association · 2025Article
- Appendiceal cancer in pregnancy and circulating tumor cells detection in the umbilical cord.Heliyon · 2025Article
- The duality of microchimerism and cancer in parous women: a review and evolutionary perspective.Seminars in immunopathology · 2025Review
- Evolution of transmissible cancers: An adaptive, plastic strategy of selfish genetic elements?iScience · 2024Review
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- Cross-individual cancer transmission to children during the gestational and perinatal periods.Cancer science · 2024Review
- Cancer in pregnancy - The obstetrical management.Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica · 2024Review
- Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia with concurrent metastasis to the mother and child: a systematic literature review.Journal of the Turkish German Gynecological Association · 2023Article
- Maternal and Child Health, Non-Communicable Diseases and Metabolites.Metabolites · 2023Review
- Fetal and placental metastases associated with maternal cancers.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2023Review
- Cancer Is Associated with the Emergence of Placenta-Reactive Autoantibodies.Biomedicines · 2023Article
- Is chimerism associated with cancer across the tree of life?PloS one · 2023Article
- Cancer as a Disease of the Cell.The oncologist · 2022Article
- In utero origin of myelofibrosis presenting in adult monozygotic twins.Nature medicine · 2022Article
- An Unusual Case of Malignant Melanoma with Metastasis to the Placenta During Pregnancy.European journal of case reports in internal medicine · 2022Article
- Ovarian Cancer and Pregnancy-A Current Problem in Perinatal Medicine: A Comprehensive Review.Cancers · 2020Review
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- Transmissible cancer and the evolution of sex.PLoS biology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Cancer cells have a parasitic propensity in the primary host but their capacity to transit between individuals is severely restrained by two factors: a lack of a route for viable cell transfer and immune recognition in allogeneic, secondary recipients. Several examples of transmissible animal cancers are now recognised. In humans, the only natural route for transmission is via the haemochorial placenta which is permissive for cell traffic. There are three special examples of this occurring
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