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Cancer and Inflammation /

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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 common mechanisms shared by their processes. Certai...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morgan, Douglas W.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Forssmann, Ulf J., Nakada, Marian T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2004.
Series:PIR (Series)
Subjects:
Medicine.
Oncology.
Immunology.
Toxicology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Chronic inflammation and cancer in various organ systems
  • Cancer as a chronic inflammatory disease: role of immunotherapy
  • Inflammatory chemokines: their role in tumor growth and progression
  • Inflammation and matrix metalloproteinases: implications for cancer development
  • Interplay between inflammation and tumor angiogenesis
  • apoptotic responses commom to cancer and inflammation
  • Cyclooxygenase activity in gastrointestinal cancer development and progression: prospects as a therapeutic target
  • Effects of COX-2 inhibitors in colorectal cancer
  • Inflammation, necrosis, and cancer.