Molecular Radio-Oncology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Baumann, Michael (Editor), Krause, Mechthild (Editor), Cordes, Nils (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Recent Results in Cancer Research, 198
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Molecular biology.; Radiology.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.; Molecular Medicine.; Cancer Research.

This book concisely reviews our current understanding of hypoxia, molecular targeting, DNA repair, cancer stem cells, and tumor pathophysiology, while also discussing novel strategies for putting these findings into practice in daily clinical routine. Radiotherapy is an important part of modern mult...

Table of Contents:

• Molecular Radiobiology: Hypoxia
• Molecular Targeting of Growth Factor Receptor Signaling
• Molecular Targeting of Cell Adhesion Molecules
• Tumor Pathophysiology
• DNA Repair
• Cancer Stem Cells
• Normal Tissue. Biomarkers/Personalized Radiation Oncology: EGFR and other RTKs
• HPV
• Hypoxia
• Study design for Biomarker research in radiation oncology
• Gene expression/system biology. Molecular Imaging in Radiation Oncology:FMISO as a biomarker for clinical radiation oncology
• FDG and beyond
• Molecular imaging techniques beyond PET.