Molecular Biology of Human Cancers An Advanced Student's Textbook /

• Main Author: Schulz, Wolfgang Arthur (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Molecular biology.; Oncology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Molecular Medicine.; Biomedicine general.

Over the last three decades, knowledge on the molecular biology of human cancers has vastly expanded. A host of genes and proteins involved in cancer development and progression have been defined and many mechanisms at the molecular, cellular and even tissue level have been, at least partly, elucida...

Table of Contents:

• Molecules, Mechanisms, And Cells
• An Introduction to Human Cancers
• An Introduction to Human Cancers
• DNA Damage and DNA Repair
• Oncogenes
• Tumor Suppressor Genes
• Cancer Pathways
• Apoptosis and Replicative Senescence in Cancer
• Cancer Epigenetics
• Invasion and metastasis
• Human Cancers
• Leukemias and Lymphomas
• Wilms Tumor (nephroblastoma)
• Cancers of the skin
• Colon Cancer
• Bladder Cancer
• Renal Cell Carcinoma
• Liver Cancer
• Stomach Cancer
• Breast Cancer
• Prostate Cancer
• Prevention, Diagnosis, And Therapy
• Cancer Prevention
• Cancer Diagnosis
• Cancer Therapy.