Biomarkers in Cancer Detection and Monitoring of Therapeutics : Volume 1: Discovery and Technologies

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Academic Press 2023

Contents:

Intro

Biomarkers in cancer detection and monitoring of therapeutics: Volume 1: Discovery and Technologies

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Preface

Chapter One: Milestones in cancer research

1. Introduction

2. Landmark researches

2.1. Aberrant chromatin

2.2. Rous sarcoma virus

2.3. Cancer metastasis

2.4. Smoking: A cause of lung cancer

2.5. Chromosomal translocations in cancer

2.6. Suppressed apoptosis

2.7. Context dependence of carcinomas

2.8. Protein phosphorylation in cancer

2.9. The immune system in cancer

2.10. Circumventing the blocks: Cancer drug resistance

3. Summary

References

Chapter Two: Cancer burden: Epidemiology, racial, and geographical disparities

2. Global burden of cancer

3. Social class disparities in cancer

4. Racial disparities in cancer

5. Risk factors for cancer

6. Reasons for disparities in cancer

6.1. Health system settings

6.2. Environmental settings

7. Response to the burden of cancer

8. Conclusion

Chapter Three: Technological evolution in cancer diagnosis and therapeutics

1. Introduction

2. Cancer diagnosis

2.1. Nanotechnology-mediated cancer diagnostics

2.2. Molecular techniques for cancer diagnostics

2.3. Advancement in biopsy

2.4. Radiomics and pathomics

2.5. Biomarker and biosensors

2.6. Other omics-based technologies

3. Cancer therapy

3.1. Nanotechnology-mediated cancer therapy

3.2. Immunotherapy

3.3. Gene therapy

3.4. Hormonal therapy

3.5. Molecular radiotherapy

3.6. Magnetic hyperthermia

3.7. Other techniques

4. Conclusion

Chapter Four: How does time speak about cancer, its diagnosis, treatments, and challenges?

Some key discoveries and events in tumorigenic virus research

3.4. Environmental radiations

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation

3.5. Medical radiations

3.6. Medication causes

3.7. Life style factors

3.8. Mutagens

4. Animal models and chemical carcinogenesis

5. History of cancer treatment

5.1. Chemotherapy

5.2. Surgery

5.3. Radiation

5.4. Immunotherapy

5.5. Therapy using nanotechnology

5.6. Treatment beyond the limit

6. Major breakthroughs in cancer research

7. Cancer in India since antiquity

Acknowledgment

References

1. Introduction

2. What causes cancer

3. New knowledge about cause of cancer

3.1. Carcinogens

3.2. Chemical carcinogens

Tobacco

Coal tar

Benzene

Hydrocarbons

Arsenic

Asbestos

3.3. Viruses

Rous sarcoma virus (RSV)

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)

Hepatitis B virus (HBV)

Human T-lymphotropic virus-1 (HTLV-1)

High-risk human papillomaviruses (HPV) 16 and HPV 18 (some other α-HPV types are carcinogenic)

Hepatitis C virus (HCV)

Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV)

Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV)

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ISBN:

9780323951173

0323951171

OCLC:

1410333069

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