Molecular Genetics of Endometrial Carcinoma

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hedrick Ellenson, Lora (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 943
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Gene expression.; Pathology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Gene Expression.

This comprehensive text provides a much-needed review of a disease that is currently garnering the interest of molecular biologists, translational scientists, and clinicians. The volume includes emerging developments in the molecular genetics of endometrial carcinoma. In addition to covering the bas...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1. Introduction
• 1. Epidemiology and metabolic/hormonal influences
• 2. Pathology
• 3. Clinical behavior and treatment
• Part 2. Molecular Profiling
• 4. Traditional approaches
• 5. Next generation sequencing
• 6. Specific Pathways
• Part 3. Mouse models
• 7. Pten
• 8. Mig-6
• 9. Lkb
• Part 4. 10. Future Directions
• Index.