Alcohol and Cancer

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Zakhari, Samir (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Vasiliou, Vasilis (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Guo, Q. Max (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Pharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

The World Health Organization has identified chronic alcohol consumption as one of the top ten risk factors for worldwide burden of disease. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has identified alcohol as carcinogenic to humans, including cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract, colon, li...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Alcohol as a Human Carcinogen
• Overview of Tumorigenesis
• Alcohol and Cancer Epidemiology
• Alcohol Metabolism and Its Implications for Cancer
• Epigenetics, Alcohol, and Cancer.-  Alcohol, Cancer Genes, and Signaling Pathways.- Alcohol, Retinoic Acid, and Cancer
• Alcohol, Altered Protein Homeostasis, and Cancer
• Alcohol and the Inflammatory Function of Immune Cells in Cancer Development
• Immune Surveillance and Tumor Evasion
• Stem Cells and Alcohol-related Cancers
• Epilogue, Consensus Recommendations - Alcohol and Cancer.