Download or read book Zur Frage der Entstehung maligner Tumoren written by Theodor Boveri and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced the chromosome theory of cancer. Boveri's theory was based on the views that cancer is a cellular problem. He believed that cancers originate from a single cell, which has an abnormality of its chromosomal constitution, and the chromosomal abnormality is passed on to all the descendants of the cell of origin, causing rapid cell proliferation.