Since their discovery over sixty years ago, eicosanoids have come to represent a diverse family of bioactive lipid modulators, including prostaglandins, thromboxanes, leukotrienes, lipoxins, isoprosta...
This volume commemorates the 30th anniversary of the discovery in 1971 of the first DNA topoisomerases, i.e topoisomerase I in E. coli, then provisionally named `omega' protein, by the pioneering work...
'Cancer Informatics' chronicles the development of the National Cancer Institute's new Cancer Informatics Infrastructure (CII) - an information management system infrastructure designed to facilitate ...
Beverly Teicher and a panel of distinguished investigators survey the state-of-the-art of antiangiogenesis research from the lab bench to clinical trials. Timely and authoritative, the contributors su...
This issue offers contemporary diagnoses and management of head and neck cancers. Both nonsurgical and surgical approaches are covered in length by leaders of the field. Melanomas, carcinomas, and tum...
This book chronicles the evidence for the chemopreventive and therapeutic effects of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors against virtually all forms of cancer and presents exciting new opportunities f...
Prestigious researchers from ten different countries present readily reproducible experimental protocols to study the molecular components of checkpoint controls and their regulation. Described in ste...
This new clinical resource clearly explains how to approach integrated care in a way that combines Chinese herbal medicine with Western medicine to enhance and improve medical care for patients with c...
The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to the principles of drug treatment for solid tumours in cancer medicine. Developments in the understanding of tumour biology, molecular biology and ...
Cancer is a heterogeneous disease in most respects, including its cellularity, different genetic alterations and diverse clinical behaviors. Traditional molecular analyses are reductionist, assessing ...
On the Chinese New Year, 6-year-old Ernie will perform his first Lion Dance. An intimate look at a Chinese household as the family shares a proud moment with their son.
Based on DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, Seventh Edition, this comprehensive question-and-answer review book covers the entire specialty of oncology and p...
Cancer is a very rare disease in children. There have been impressive gains in survival in recent years, and these have been achieved through the use of chemotherapy and national and international cli...
Acclaimed by the worldwide medical community as 'a staple reference text in the medical oncologist's library' (JAMA), DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology is no...
This issue will educate the internist and general practitioner on colon cancer, as well as further educate the gastroenterologist and colon cancer researcher. It provides basic clinical knowledge, com...
Cervical cancer is the second most common form of cancer found in women and it is responsible for more than a quarter of a million deaths worldwide each year. With approximately 70% of cervical cancer...
Written by scientists in the field of delivery of protein and peptide drugs to tumors for cancer therapy, this book provides a broad introduction to the field, with discussion by key experts on the ph...
The book that Sakamoto proposes along with Eric Ruben will be a comprehensive monograph on the role of protein modulation in cancer therapeutics; it will focus on targeting molecules that regulate pro...
Medical information science requires analytic tools. This is achieved by developing and assessing methods and systems for the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of patient data, aided by scie...
Molecular understanding of cancer and cancer progression is at the forefront of many research programs today. High-throughput array technologies and other modern molecular techniques produce a wealth ...
Breast Cancer is the most common tumor in women and the second leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Due to breakthroughs in gene profiling, the knowledge of the pathophysiology of the mammary gl...
In Hormone Therapy in Breast and Prostate Cancer, many of today's leading researchers and clinicians describe the principles underlying targeted hormonal treatments, assess the actions of new and esta...
Management of Breast Cancer in Older Women offers the reader evidence-based clinical knowledge of older patients suffering from breast cancer. It presents the most up-to-date research and clinical kno...
Breast Cancer Risk Reduction and Early Detection provides an in-depth overview of the factors of breast cancer risk and what health care providers and individuals can do to impact the risk of breast c...
Edited by Dr. Stephen Yang, each volume in the Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Series is packed with practical, authoritative information designed to cover the full range of diagnostic procedu...
What You Need To Know About Breast Cancer clears away the confusion and misunderstanding about breast cancer and provides valuable information about the dramatic advances that have been made in dealin...
This title presents chapters written by leading clinical researchers in the field of lung cancer, where high resolution 3-D imaging technology appears to hold the greatest near-term promise, as well a...
Leading clinicians and investigators review in a comprehensible and user-friendly style all the latest information about the molecular biology of cell cycle control and demonstrate its clinical relev...
Important developments have been made to the field of colon and rectal cancer, including molecular markers and neo-adjuvant therapy, plus additional improvements to preventive measure and screening st...
As modern day society takes an increasing interest in outdoor activities, its exposure to sunlight has never been greater. As a consequence, countries throughout the world are experiencing a dramatic ...