Metabolism in Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cramer, Thorsten (Editor), A. Schmitt, Clemens (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Recent Results in Cancer Research, 207
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Oncology.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Biochemistry, general.; Cell Biology.

This textbook presents concise chapters written by internationally respected experts on various important aspects of cancer-associated metabolism, offering a comprehensive overview of the central features of this exciting research field. The discovery that tumor cells display characteristic alterati...

Table of Contents:

• Metabolic requirements of cellular proliferation
• The role of myc in cancer metabolism
• Metabolic control of inflammation
• Metabolism-targeting therapies
• The role of pH regulation and hypoxia in cancer progression
• Metabolic profiling in breast cancer
• Imaging of tumor metabolism.