Clinical Cancer Prevention

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Senn, Hans-Jörg (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Otto, Florian (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Σειρά: Recent Results in Cancer Research, 188
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Gynecology.; Public health.; Health promotion.; Oncology.; Urology.; Epidemiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Public Health.

This book is based on presentations by some of the world’s leading experts at the Sixth International Conference on Clinical Cancer Prevention, held in St. Gallen, Switzerland, during March 2010. The main themes are the latest advances in the prevention of breast and prostate cancer and the role of...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Allocating cancer directed expenditures – Tensions between prevention, early detection and treatment
• Lessons learned from prevention programs: Different endpoints should be used in secondary and tertiary prevention
• Biomarkers for early detection and as surrogate endpoints in cancer prevention trials: Issues and opportunities
• Targeting polyamines and inflammation for cancer prevention
• Thinking about the role (largely ignored) of heavy metals in cancer prevention: Hexavalent chromium and melanoma as a case in point
• Hepatitis B virus and cancer prevention
• Chemoprevention of hepatocellular carcinoma in chronic hepatitis C
• Nutritional aspects of primary prostate cancer prevention
• Prostate cancer prevention with 5 alpha reductase inhibitors
• Hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer
• Physical activity and breast cancer: Review of the epidemiologic evidence and biologic mechanisms
• Prevention of breast cancer by newer SERMs and the future
• Chemoprevention of hormone receptor-negative breast cancer: new approaches needed.