Inflammation and Gastrointestinal Cancers

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Jankowski, Janusz A. Z. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Σειρά: Recent Results in Cancer Research, 185
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Inflammation in gastrointestinal mucosa can remodel the topography of the overlying epithelium. If such inflammation is chronic, it has fundamental clinical consequences, the principal of which is premalignant metaplasia throughout the alimentary tract. Furthermore, mucosal inflammation, even if sub...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Basic concepts of inflammation and its role in carcinogenesis
• Inherited syndromes predisposing to inflammation and GI cancer
• Stem cell biology and mucosal inflammation
• Acid reflux and esophageal cancer
• H Pylori and gastric cancer
• Inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer
• Liver cancer
• Current screening strategies
• Targeted drug therapies and cancer
• Genetics of inflammation in the GI tract and how it can cause cancer
• Endoscopic methods.