Oncology category: 2472 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Gene expression studies have revealed diagnostic profiles and upregulation of specific pathways in many solid tumors. The explosion of new information in gene expression profiling could potentially lead to the development of tailored treatments in many solid tumors. In addition many studies are ongoing...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Genomic Applications in Pathology provides a state-of-the art review of the scientific principles underlying next generation genomic technologies and the required bioinformatics approaches to analyses of the daunting amount of data generated by current and emerging genomic technologies. Implementation...
Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Volume 5
Therapeutic Applications in Disease and Injury
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
It is pointed out that a cancer stem cell is a type within a tumor that possesses the capacity of self-renewal and can give rise to the heterogeneous lineages of cancer cells, which comprise the tumor. It is emphasized that a unique feature of cancer stem cells is that, although conventional chemotherapy...
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Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Molecular Surgical Pathology provides a concise review of recent advancement of molecular pathology in each organ system. The text is intended as a “first knowledge base” in the rapidly evolving field of molecular pathology and is organized in a user friendly outline format. Each chapter is organ-based...
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Release Date: October 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2014
This volume presents the MD Anderson experience in providing care and services to the rapidly growing population of cancer survivors, which is currently estimated to be 12 million in the United States and more than 25 million worldwide. As cancer survival rates have increased, it has slowly become...
Mouse Models of Human Blood Cancers
Basic Research and Pre-clinical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
In this book, Dr. Li and his author team plan to emphasize why mouse models are useful in vivo systems for understanding disease mechanisms and developing therapeutic strategies in blood cancers. The authors do not intend to cover all types of blood cancers; instead, they will focus on some major...
Physical Agents in the Environment and Workplace
Noise and Vibrations, Electromagnetic Fields and Ionizing Radiation
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This book explores environmental physical agents and their potential effect on public and occupational health. It considers the theory, current research, and applications of physical agents including noise, ionizing radiation protection and non ionizing radiation protection, and explores the monitoring,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The use of cells for the treatment of a variety of diseases is no longer a dream. Today, blood transfusion, bone marrow transplantation, the use of ex vivo cultured skin in wound healing, and peripheral stern cell transplantation, including the ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stern cells after...
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Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
This book describes in detail current best practice in the diagnosis and treatment of malignant pediatric bone tumors and also discusses other important aspects of management. Clinical assessment, the role of different imaging modalities and choice of biopsy procedure are explained and an individual...
Tumors of the Fetus and Infant
An Atlas
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Over the past two decades, the remarkable advances in imaging techniques, such as ultrasound and fast or ultra-fast MRI, have led to the diagnosis of an increasing number of tumors at the prenatal stage. This revised, abundantly illustrated second edition of Tumors of the Fetus and Infant: An Atlas...
DNA Alterations in Lynch Syndrome
Advances in molecular diagnosis and genetic counselling
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Lynch syndrome (LS) is the most common cause of inherited colorectal cancer, a disease with a high mortality rate. An estimated 37,000 of diagnosed colorectal cancer cases worldwide are attributed to Lynch syndrome each year. Intensive cancer screening, with early initiation and frequent follow-up,...
Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Volume 2
Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Therapeutic Applications in Disease and Injury: Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
As in volume 1 of this series, this volume presents information on stem cells and cancer stem cells; Therapeutic Applications in disease and tissue/organ injury. Methodologies of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering are major components of this volume. Specific stem cells discussed are: human...
Hypothalamic Control of Lactation
Monographs on Endocrinology
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Monographs on Endocrinology, Volume 3: Hypothalamic Control of Lactation provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of lactation, which is dependent upon the temporal cortex of the brain. This book discusses the manifold problems of hypothalamic lactation.
Organized into four parts...
Novel Immunotherapeutic Approaches to the Treatment of Cancer
Drug Development and Clinical Application
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Cancer care is undergoing a radical transformation as novel technologies are directed toward new treatments and personalized medicine. The most dramatic advances in the treatment of cancer have come from therapeutics that augment the immune response to tumors. The immune checkpoint inhibitors are...