Bone is a common site of cancer metastases - cancer cells commonly develop in bone and spread to other organ systems through the bloodstream. This book provides data on bone cancer development, genomic and proteomic analyses, and clinical analyses, as well as therapeutic approaches and clinical trials for primary bone tumors and bone metastases.

Covers a range of diagnostic procedures, including pathologic, radiologic, bronchoscopic, and surgical aspects. This title helps you to determine the safest, shortest, least invasive way to reach an accurate diagnosis; stage the disease; and, choose the best initial treatment for early stages.

Suitable for oncologists and cancer researchers, this work helps to determine effective drug treatments. It features not only anticancer drugs, but also other drugs that act upon related organ systems affected by cancer.

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In Hormone Therapy in Breast and Prostate Cancer, many of today's leading researchers and clinicians describe the principles underlying targeted hormonal treatments, assess the actions of new and established agents, and illustrate the new applications of hormonal chemoprevention for breast cancer. Topics range from preclinical and clinical antiestrogens to the inhibition of estrogen synthesis and

Offers information on the developments in the diagnosis and treatment of primary liver cancer. This book details for physicians the diagnostic and therapeutic decision making process for dealing with such problems as incidental tumors in the liver transplant, the role of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy, and intra-arterial vs intravenous therapy.

Cancer is a group of different diseases (more than 100) characterised by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. Significant progress has been made in recent years in the battle against cancer and in understanding its underlying biological mechanisms. This book reveals the research in obtaining experimental treatments and cures.

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Aimed at meeting the needs for haematologists and clinical chemists for a reference, this atlas offers a visual presentation of myeloproliferative neoplasms and myeloid leukaemia. It surveys individual disease, covering the clinical presentation, haematological and pathological features, immunophenotyping and cytogenetic and genetic abnormalities.

Cancer was thought to originate from alterations in intercellular signaling that resulted in the transformation of cells, their uncontrolled proliferation and metastasis. There is now an increasing body of evidence demonstrating that the surrounding matrix and cell-matrix interactions are also major players in this process.

Explores the findings in research into the genetics of breast and reproductive cancers. This book covers the epidemiological aspects of these cancers, their etiology, the effect of environment on genes and cancer etiology, and how research in this area can lead to development of preventative measures and treatments.

Oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes had been traditionally studied in the context of cell proliferation, differentiation, senescence, and survival, four relatively cell-autonomous processes. The commonly held view is that changes in tumor microenvironment are 'soft-wired', that is, epigenetic in nature and often reversible.

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Suitable for clinicians, pathologists and basic scientists, this book details the advances in pancreatic cancer research that have a profound and lasting impact on the field.

Squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity (SCCOC) is one of the most prevalent tumors of the head and neck region. This book summarizes the status of investigations into SCCOC metastases and potential of these studies to impact basic research investigators and clinicians confronting SCCOC.

Aromatase inhibitors (AI) are a class of drugs used in the treatment of breast cancer and ovarian cancer in postmenopausal women. Aromatase is an enzyme that synthesises oestrogen and aromatase inhibitors block the synthesis of oestrogen, which is needed in some cancers to grow. This book presents the research from around the world in this field.

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Cancer treatment using Macromolecular therapeutics has considerably improved the survival benefit for the patients. This book assembles various types and aspects of macromolecular anticancer therapeutics for cancer therapy and conveys the importance of this interdisciplinary field.

Addresses the spectrum of skin cancers from the precancerous to the inoperable. This book describes a wide selection of medical treatments and surgical procedures. It includes case studies that help to illustrate the various techniques.

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