Cancer Genetics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pasche, Boris (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Cancer Treatment and Research, 155
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Human genetics.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cancer Research.; Human Genetics.

Cancer genetics has revolutionized the practice of medicine as inherited genetic information helps predicts which individuals are at risk of developing various forms of cancer. Furthermore, somatically acquired genetic changes help identify therapeutic targets for patients with several common tumor...

Table of Contents:

• Ethicolegal Aspects of Cancer Genetics
• The Influence of Common Polymorphisms on Breast Cancer
• Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer
• Genetics and Genomics of Neuroblastoma
• TGF-? Signaling Alterations and Colon Cancer.