Full Description
This book offers an overview of the biological basis of 26 different solid cancers for scientists and oncologists to understand the clinical challenges. The book provides a quick, simplified, and updated review of the present genetic or genomic medicine era. With genetic and molecular details to enhance understanding of biological mechanisms underlying disease pathogenesis and treatment response, each chapter covers epidemiology, risk factors, classification, pathophysiology, genetics, and treatment of solid cancers.
This book is a beginner's guide for life sciences and medicine graduate students, fellows in training, biomedical sciences researchers, principal investigators, clinician-researchers and oncologists.
Contents
Chapter 1 Lung cancer.- Chapter 2 Breast cancer.- Chapter 3 Esophageal cancer.- Chapter 4 Stomach cancer.- Chapter 5 Colorectal cancer.- Chapter 6 Liver cancer.- Chapter 7 Pancreatic cancer.- Chapter 8 Biliary tract cancers.- Chapter 9 Kidney cancer.- Chapter 10 Bladder cancer.- Chapter 11 Ovarian cancer.- Chapter 12 Endometrial cancer.- Chapter 13 Cervical cancer.- Chapter 14 Prostate cancer.- Chapter 15 Testicular cancer.- Chapter 16 Cancers of the central nervous system.- Chapter 17 Head and Neck cancers.- Chapter 18 Eye cancer.- Chapter 19 Adrenocortical cancer.- Chapter 20 Thyroid cancer.- Chapter 21 Skin cancer.- Chapter 22 Bone cancer.- Chapter 23 Thymic cancer.- Chapter 24 Soft tissue sarcoma.- Chapter 25 Malignant mesothelioma.- Chapter 26 Neuroblastoma.