Full Description
Cancer Epigenetics and Nanomedicine: Targeting the Right Player via Nanotechnology is a complete package that provides a comprehensive and thorough understanding of the key players that modulate the various steps of carcinogenesis and malignant progression of the disease and the critical targets to be exploited for developing novel modalities of diagnosis and therapeutics.
Since epigenetic aberrations can be potentially reversed and restored to their normal state through epigenetic therapy, the book also discusses the challenges and the future of the field with the cutting-edge revelations and limitations that this research endeavor can offer, thereby helping the readers to enhance their critical thinking and adopt strategies of therapeutic importance.
Contents
SECTION 1 Overview of cancer, internal and external factors associated with cancer
1. Overview of cancer: Mechanisms of carcinogenesis
2. Tumor metabolism and micronutrients: New insights to target malignant tumors
3. The role of one-carbon amino acids in tumor-immune metabolism: From oncogenesis to therapy
4. Environmental causes of cancer
5. Cancer stem cells—Challenges for cancer therapies
6. Carving a therapeutic niche for metastatic cancer: Opportunities and challenges
SECTION 2 Epigenetics and its importance in cancer therapies
7. An overview of epigenetics and cancer
8. Metabolic adaptation and epigenetic modulations: Unraveling tumor plasticity under variable tumor microenvironment
9. Involvement of epigenetic modifications in cancer stem cells and chemoresistance
10. Cancer biomarkers: Where genetics meets epigenetics
11. Epigenetics approach in cancer treatment with focus on lung and breast cancer
12. Dietary components as epigenetic modifiers and their roles in cancer prevention
SECTION 3 Nanomedicine targeting epigenetic machinery in cancer therapy
13. Harnessing plant-derived biosynthetic nanomaterials for epigenetic modulation in cancer therapy
14. Nanotechnology-enhanced immunotherapy for cancer
15. Nanoparticles in metastatic cancer treatment
16. Amine-terminated dendrimers: A novel method for diagnose, control and treatment of cancer
17. Nanomedicine and epigenome: Possible health risks, benefits, and future perspectives
18. Smart cancer nanomedicine: Challenges and future opportunities