Experimental Metastasis: Modeling and Analysis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Malek, Anastasia (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Laboratory medicine.; Cell culture.; Animal models in research.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Laboratory Medicine.; Animal Models.; Cell Culture.

Metastatic dissemination remains a main cause for cancer related deaths. Investigation of the molecular mechanisms of the metastatic process presents an important area of cancer research and may provide clinical oncologists with new methods to prevent and manage cancer dissemination. Availability of...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Head and neck cancer
• Breast cancer invasion and metastasis
• Mouse models of pancreatic cancer
• Brain Metastasis
• Lung metastasis
• Liver Metastases
• Malignant pleural effusion
• Mathematic modeling of metastatic process. Index.