Breast Cancer Chemosensitivity

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yu, Dihua (Editor), Hung, Mien-Chie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 608
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Molecular biology.; Oncology.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cancer Research.; Biochemistry, general.; Molecular Medicine.; Cell Biology.

In Breast Cancer Chemosensitivity, a group of world leading experts review critical aspects of resistance to systemic therapy in breast cancer patients. Beginning with a clinical overview of the problem Breast Cancer Chemosensitivity moves on to focus on the latest findings of molecular mechanisms o...

Table of Contents:

• Overview of Resistance to Systemic Therapy in Patients with Breast Cancer
• Roles of Multidrug Resistance Genes in Breast Cancer Chemoresistance
• Therapy-Induced Apoptosis in Primary Tumors
• Cell Cycle Deregulation in Breast Cancer: Insurmountable Chemoresistance or Achilles’ Heel?
• p53, BRCA1 and Breast Cancer Chemoresistance
• Integrin-Mediated Adhesion: Tipping the Balance between Chemosensitivity and Chemoresistance
• Insulin-Like Growth Factors and Breast Cancer Therapy
• EGF Receptor in Breast Cancer Chemoresistance
• Molecular Mechanisms of ErbB2-Mediated Breast Cancer Chemoresistance
• Estrogen Receptors in Resistance to Hormone Therapy
• Novel Approaches for Chemosensitization of Breast Cancer Cells: The E1A Story.