Emerging therapeutic targets in ovarian cancer /

• Other Authors: Kaye, Stanley B.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, [2011]
• Subjects: Ovaries > Cancer > Treatment.; Ovarian Neoplasms > therapy.; Antineoplastic Agents > therapeutic use.; Drug Design.; Drug Therapy > trends.; Medicine.; HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Cancer.; MEDICAL > Oncology.; Electronic books.

This book offers a progress report on efforts to meet the challenges faced by ovarian cancer patients and their doctors. It provides a current perspective on therapeutic developments as a partnership between laboratory-based and clinical-based researchers.

Table of Contents:

• Preface; Contents; Contributors; 1 Systemic Therapy for Ovarian Cancer, Current Treatment, Recent Advances, and Unmet Needs; 2 Discovery of Novel Targets; 3 Novel Anti-angiogenic Therapies in Ovarian Cancer; 4 Targeting the AKT Pathway in Ovarian Cancer; 5 Inhibition of the Src Oncogene: Therapeutic PotentialINTbreak; in Ovarian Carcinoma; 6 Tumour-Specific Synthetic Lethality: Targeting BRCA Dysfunction in Ovarian Cancer; 7 Targeting Inflammatory Pathways in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer.