Molecular Staging of Cancer /

An explosion of information has occurred since scientists began to define the molecular events that describe the malignant transformation and progression of cells and their development towards a life-threatening metastatic disease. The First International Congress on Molecular Staging of Cancer, hel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allgayer, Heike
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Heiss, Markus M., Schildberg, F. W. (Friedrich W.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003.
Series:Recent results in cancer research ; 162.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • From the contents: The urokinase receptor (uPAR, CD87) as a target for tumor therapy
  • Molecular regulation of urokinase receptor (u-PAR) gene expression as one potential concept for molecular staging and therapy
  • Stromal cell involvement in cancer
  • Inhibition of the tumor-associated urokinase-type plasminogen activation system: effects of high level synthesis of soluble urokinase receptor in ovarian and breast cancer cells in vitro and in vivo
  • Molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis in gastric cancer
  • Clinical implications of molecular diagnosis in HNPCC
  • Minimal residual disease in gastric cancer
  • Minimal residual disease in breast cancer and gynecological malignancies
  • Clinical implications of the EGF-receptor/ligand system for tumor progression and survival in gastrointestinal carcinomas: evidence for new therapeutic options
  • Minimal residual disease in the bone marrow and peripheral blood of patients with metastatic breast cancer
  • Estrogen receptor (ER) expression profile of disseminated epithelial tumor cells in the bone marrow of breast cancer patients
  • Detection of circulating tumor cells in blood using an optimized density gradient centrifugation
  • Antitumoral and antimetastatic effects of continuous particle mediated cytokine gene therapy
  • Genetic subtyping of renal cell carcinoma by comparative genomic hybridization
  • Telomere length and hTERT expression in patients with colorectal carcinoma
  • Evaluation of the level of bFGF, VEGF, sICAM-1, sVCAM-1 in the serum of patients with thyroid cancer.