1 option
Cancer biology : an updated global overview / Tarek H. El-Metwally.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- El-Metwally, Tarek H.
- Series:
- Cancer etiology, diagnosis, and treatments.
- Cancer etiology, diagnosis and treatments series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cancer.
- Carcinogenesis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (96 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Although prevention should be our primer facing cancer, without proper understanding to the nature of cancer as a disease, we will be failing to meet our global aim of eradicating it. In a very simplified approach, this book tries to present a straightforward picture to the problem; definition, causation and molecular changes.
- Contents:
- Cancer definition and classification
- Cellular carcinogenesis is a monoclonal multistep threshold phenomenon
- The genetic and molecular changes leading to cancer are of five types
- Causes of cancer
- Cellular changes associating malignant transformation (dedifferentiation)
- Tumor recurrence and metastasis
- Tumor markers
- Natural inhibitors of the multistage carcinogenesis
- Biochemical bases of current anticancer treatments.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61209-868-1
- OCLC:
- 699511416
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.