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Carcinoma, Lewis Lung MeSH Descriptor Data 2025


MeSH Heading
Carcinoma, Lewis Lung
Tree Number(s)
C04.557.470.200.280
C04.619.230
Unique ID
D018827
RDF Unique Identifier
http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018827
Scope Note
A carcinoma discovered by Dr. Margaret R. Lewis of the Wistar Institute in 1951. This tumor originated spontaneously as a carcinoma of the lung of a C57BL mouse. The tumor does not appear to be grossly hemorrhagic and the majority of the tumor tissue is a semifirm homogeneous mass. (From Cancer Chemother Rep 2 1972 Nov;(3)1:325) It is also called 3LL and LLC and is used as a transplantable malignancy.
Previous Indexing
Lung Neoplasms (1972-1994)
Public MeSH Note
95
History Note
95
Date Established
1995/01/01
Date of Entry
1994/06/01
Revision Date
2003/07/30
Carcinoma, Lewis Lung Preferred
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