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This is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the diagnosis, clinical features and management of inherited disorders conferring cancer susceptibility. It is fully updated with much molecular, screening and management information. It covers risk...

This book aims to provide scientists with tools and well-researched protocols to enable their research and to facilitate further progress in this common leukemia. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters...

A large body of information about possible causes of cancer has been ac cumulated by both clinical experience in man and observations in animal experiments. There is general agreement that in most cases cancer is due to exogenous factors, albeit the...

We present an in-depth description of resistance to targeted therapies in breast cancer. Targeted therapies discussed here include those used to treat ER+ or Her2+ breast cancers (i.e., Tamoxifen or trastuzumab) or those targeting signaling pathways...

This book is exceptional in presenting an interdisciplinary approach to the subject of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in the context of head and neck cancer. Leading experts in the field discuss the epidemiology and molecular biology of...

Rectal Cancer: International Perspectives on Multimodality Management is a timely analysis of the diagnosis, staging, pathology, and therapy of cancer of the rectum. This book is intended as a useful resource for physicians, scientists, medical students,...

Expert physician-scientists and clinicians review those combinations of novel target agents classic chemotherapies that hold the most promise for the future of medical oncology, and detail their optimal sequence, pharmacokinetic interactions, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789851717Author Pinar ErkekogluFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpenWeight(grams) 180g

In the past five years, a surprising and intense resurgence in interest in vitamins and other micronutrients and their role in health and dis- ease has occurred. The recognition has emerged that vitamins not only are essential for life *in that severe...

This book focuses on putting successful molecular strategies into practice for the treatment of gynecologic cancer. It approaches research into the pathology and treatment of gynecologic oncology from both clinical and experimental perspectives. New...

Metastasis is the primary cause of mortality associated with cancer, and tumor genomic heterogeneity is a likely source for the cells that support cancer progression, resistance to therapy, and disease relapse. This book connects cancer metastasis with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632410986Author Sandra LekinFormat HardbackImprint Hayle MedicalPublisher Hayle MedicalWeight(grams) 762g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632423801Author Irene HarrisFormat HardbackImprint Foster AcademicsPublisher Foster AcademicsWeight(grams) 667g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632422460Author Chelsey RonanFormat HardbackImprint Foster AcademicsPublisher Foster AcademicsWeight(grams) 585g

Applied genetic research, genetic toxicology and mutation research investigate the mutagenicity and cancerogenicity of chemicals and other agents. Permanent mutation in genes and chromosomes, can be induced by aplethora of agents, including ionizing and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858734279Author Alan ListFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Current Medicine GroupPublisher Current Medicine GroupWeight(grams) 93g

The incidence of ovarian cancer has progressively increased during the past decade, and its mortality rate has followed a similar course. Conversely, in cancer of the uterine cervix, the mortality rate has diminished. Detection and early diag nosis have...

This volume, the last in this series on cancer growth and Moreover, the current status of plant-derived vinca alka- progression, is a companion volume to Volume IX and loids and non-alkaloid natural products is summarized. further explores established...

Growth activity of brain tumors, metabolism of brain tumors, brain tumors and cytokines, drug resistance of brain tumors, oncogenes and anti-oncogenes, basic studies in brain tumor biology and therapy are presented in this book...

Chemotherapy is one of the major treatment options for cancer patients; however, the efficacy of chemotherapeutic management of cancer is severely limited by multidrug resistance, in that cancer cells become simultaneously resistant to many structurally...

"Metastatic Bone Disease: Fundamental and Clinical Aspects" is an expanded version of a workshop on bone metastases which was held in Heidelberg, Germany, in April 1993. Bone metastases very often develop from malignant tumors and lead to...

This book is intended as an introduction to the drug treatment of cancer. It is almost ten years since the last edition was written. In the intervening time, there have been numerous developments in cancer chemotherapy and in order to cover these the...

How are cancer and inflammation interrelated mechanistically and clinically? Though extensive literature exists on the topic "Cancer and Inflammation", there are relatively few texts that have truly integrated the two in spite of the many...

Leukemia continues to offer the scientist a unique opportunity to gain new knowledge about the malignant transformation. As a result, this multi-authored volume, devoted to advances which have occurred over the last seven years, provides the reader with...

The aim of Apoptosis and Cancer is to describe the performance of contemporary techniques for studying the biology of apoptosis and its role in cancer. The protocols described will aid both the academic laboratory interested in further characterizing the...

The process of metastasis formation is hugely complex, as described in the introductory chapter of this book, and this complexity has led us to compile two volumes of methods, from a vastly divergent background that attempts to encompass the whole...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632423764Author Deb WillisFormat HardbackImprint Foster AcademicsPublisher Foster AcademicsWeight(grams) 549g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986814209Author Kyle CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Kyle CampbellPublisher Kyle CampbellWeight(grams) 227g

This book focuses on histone mutations, especially those mutations closely related to cancer. Genetic mutations and epigenetic alterations contribute to the development of a variety of cancers: recent genetic studies have identified e.g. H3K27M and...

This is the thirteenth volume in a series which presents current understanding of stem cells and cancer stem cells. This book presents many relevant topics including the different sources of cancer stem cells: the features, roles and clinical potential...

These four volumes comprlslng "GnRH Analogues in Cancer and Human Reproduction" are a distillation of the presentations of the invited speakers at a landmark International Symposium bearing the same name, organized by one of us (B. L. ) and...

The European Cancer Prevention Organization (ECP) was established in 1981 with the objective of developing studies of the aetiology and preven tion of cancer through concerted-action European collaborative studies. It achieves this through the...

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One of the main causes of failure in the treatment of breast cancer is the intrinsic presence of, or development of, drug resistance by the cancer cells. Recent studies on the mechanisms of cancer drug resistance have yielded important information...

Hepatocellular carcinoma is one of the most common fatal malignan cies of mankind. Up to a few decades ago it was looked upon as a cancer which aroused mainly academic concern but relatively little clinical interest, because its therapy and prognosis had...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the multitude of different forms of thermotherapy in connection with aspects of thermal physiology and cell biology. The aim is to elucidate the scientific background of therapeutic actions and to promote...

Twenty years have passed since I became a professor in the First Department of Pathology, Hiroshima University School of Medicine. It is my great pleas ure that Molecular Pathology o[ Gastroenterological Cancer-Application to Clinical Practice has been...

Prostate cancer is by far the most common cancer in men and the second leading cause of death due to cancer. It comprises a mixed group of tumours displaying varying clinical behaviour: while some have a very aggressive course, others are rather indolent...

Modern imaging methods have made it possible to detect breast cancer at an earlier stage than in the past. Nevertheless, a large majority of suspicious findings at screening subsequently prove to be benign. It is therefore important to be able to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783036529356Author Grant D StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 685g