1. Van Dyke, T. & Jacks, T. Cancer modeling in the modern era: progress and challenges. Cell 108, 135–144 (2002).
2. Herzig, M. & Christofori, G. Recent advances in cancer research: mouse models of tumorigenesis. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1602, 97–113 (2002).
3. Jonkers, J. & Berns, A. Conditional mouse models of sporadic cancer. Nature Rev. Cancer 2, 251–265 (2002).
4. Ames, B. N., Saul, R. L., Schwiers, E., Adelman, R. & Cathcart, R. in Molecular Biology of Ageing (eds Sohal, R. S., Birnbam, L. S. & Cutler, R. G.) 137–144 (Raven Press, New York, 1985).
5. Holliday, R. Neoplastic transformation: the contrasting stability of human and mouse cells. Cancer Surv. 28, 103–115 (1996).