Principles of molecular oncology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bronchud, Miguel H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2004]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Selecting the right targets for cancer therapy
  • Clinical importance of prognostic factors : moving from scientifically interesting to clinically useful
  • Genetic markers in sporadic tumors
  • Genetic markers in breast tumors with hereditary predisposition
  • Cellular and tissue markers in solid tumors
  • Molecular and pathologic characterization of human tumors
  • Circulating tumor markers
  • Proteomics-based approaches : new opportunities in cancer research
  • Growth factor signaling pathways in cancer
  • Estrogen action and breast cancer
  • Cyclin-dependent kinases and their regulators as potential targets for anticancer therapeutics
  • Angiogenesis switch pathways
  • Invasion and metastasis
  • Molecular pathways of drug resistance
  • Genomic instability, DNA repair pathways, and cancer
  • Immunotherapy for human cancer : evidence and obstacles
  • Treatment with monoclonal antibodies
  • Emerging molecular therapies : drugs interfering with signal transduction pathways
  • Treatment of carcinogenesis
  • Suicide gene therapy