
Understanding Cancer from a Systems Biology Point of View
From Observation to Theory and Back
Description
Key Features
- Explains the systemic nature of cancer and how it affects decisions on treatment
- Brings a variety of methods together, showing, in detail, the logical approach to finding answers to complex questions
- Discusses the theoretical underpinnings of cancer as a systemic disease, providing the reader with valuable information on applicable cases
Readership
Understanding the systemic nature of cancer and how that affects decisions made with regard to approach to treatment
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Tumor dormancy
3. Cancer immunoediting: a process driven by metabolic competition as a predator-prey-shared resource type model
4. Escape from tumor dormancy and time to angiogenic switch as mitigated by tumor- induced stimulation of stroma
5. Angiogenesis regulators as a possible key to accelerated growth of secondary tumors following primary tumor resection
6. A combination of immune checkpoint inhibition with metronomic chemotherapy as a way of targeting therapy-resistant cancer cells
7. Summary and conclusions
Product details
- No. of pages: 118
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: February 7, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128136737
- eBook ISBN: 9780128136744
About the Author
Irina Kareva
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