George H. Balazs Thierry M. Work 2013 <p>Early in July 2013, a colleague in New Caledonia reported the stranding of a green sea turtle on the far northwest of the island. The animal had washed up dead on a rocky beach with multiple large tumors on its neck and hind flippers. To all appearances, the turtle had fibropapillomatosis (FP), a tumor disease affecting marine turtles globally. This was the first known case of FP on the island&mdash;an alarming find, and another example of the creeping expansion of this disease in green turtles around the world.</p> application/pdf en The Wildlife Society Tumors in sea turtles: The insidious menace of fibropapillomatosis article