
The Molecular Basis of Cancer
Description
Key Features
- Effectively determine the course of malignancy and design appropriate treatment protocols by understanding the scientific underpinnings of cancer.
- Visually grasp and retain difficult concepts easily thanks to a user-friendly format with abundant full-color figures.
- Find critical information quickly with chapters following a logical sequence that moves from pathogenesis to therapy.
Table of Contents
The Molecular Basis of Cancer, 4e
Mendelsohn, Howley, Israel, Gray, Thompson
Part I: Carcinogenesis and Cancer Genetics
1. Cancer, A Genetic Disorder
2. Oncogenes and Signal Transduction
3. Tumor Suppressor Genes
4. Genomic Instability and DNA Repair
5. Epigenetics and Cancer
6. Infectious Agents and Cancer
7. Environmental Carcinogenesis
8. Animal Models: Flies, Fish and Yeast
9. Genetic Mouse Models of Cancer
Part II: Cancer Biology
10. Cancer Stem Cells
11. Regulation of the Cell Cycle
12. Cell Growth
13. Cancer Cell Metabolism
14. Apoptosis, Autophagy and Necrosis
15. Cell Growth Arrest and Senescence
16. Stromal-Cancer Interactions in the Microenvironment
17. Hypoxia and Angiogenesis
18. Invasion and Metastasis
19. Inflammation and Cancer
20. Molecular Pathways and Systems Biology
Part III: Molecular Pathology and Diagnostics
21. Biomarkers Assessing Risk of Cancer
22. Biomarkers for Detecting Cancer: Molecular Screening
23. Biomarkers for Predicting Response to Specific Therapy
24. The Technology of Analyzing Nucleic Acids
25. Imaging Cancer
Product details
- No. of pages: 888
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Saunders 2014
- Published: February 19, 2014
- Imprint: Saunders
- eBook ISBN: 9780323261968
- Hardcover ISBN: 9781455740666