Edited by
George Vande Woude, Director, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
George Klein, Karolinska Insitutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Description
Volume 76 of
Advances in Cancer Research continues the series' goal of publishing timely and authoritative reviews in
the broad field of cancer research. Ruoslahti begins the volume with a review of fibronectin and its integrin receptors in cancer. Chapter
2 by Ganter and Lipsick discusses Myb and oncogenesis. Biscardi and colleagues present their research on c-Src, receptor tyrosine kinases,
and human cancer in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 by Schulz covers epidemiology of Kaposi's sarcoma and associated herpesvirus/human herpesvirus
8. The consensus on synergism between cigarette smoke and other environmental carcinogens in the causation of lung cancer is reviewed
by Reif and Heeren in Chapter 5. In Chapter 6, Breivik and Gaudernack discuss perspectives on carcinogenesis and natural selection in
the genetics and epigenetics of colorectal cancer. Chapter 7 by Coulie and co-workers concludes the volume with a discussion of anti-tumor
immunity at work in a melanoma patient.
Included in series
Advances in Cancer Research
Audience:
Researchers and students in the basic and clinical science of cancer biology and oncology, plus related areas in genetics, immunology, pharmacology, cell biology, and molecular biology.
