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The combined effects of population growth and aging have led to an increase in the number of cancers. Preventing, diagnosing, treating and curing cancer are therefore, more than ever, imperatives facing medicine ? especially to continue the decrease in cancers' mortality rates and to improve the qu…
"This title will help you understand and apply the scientific advances that are revolutionizing cancer research and practice with Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology: Primer of the Molecular Biology of Cancer. Derived from DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles and Practice of …
Summary:; "Steps toward an explanatory paradigm for cancer that integrates its different levels of organization (molecular, genetic, etc.) and also integrates theoretical and experimental biology with oncology"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:; Here comes trouble : autism and gender performance -- Beyond ?for your own good? : youth liberation, disability justice, and the importance of autonomy in the lives of autistic transgender children -- Autistic cognition and gender identity : real struggles and imaginary deficits -- Trans…
Introduction by Stella Pelengaris and Mike Khan; The Burden of cancer by William Steward and Anne Thomas; Nature and nurture in oncogenesis by Stella Pelengaris and Mike Khan; DNA replication and the cell cycle by Stella Pelengaris and Mike Khan; Regulation of growth : growth factors, receptors, an…
Content:; 1: The Genetic Basis of Cancer -- 2: Oncogenes -- 3: Tumor Suppressor Genes -- 4: Genetic Instability and Cancer -- 5: Cancer Genomes -- 6: Cancer Gene Pathways -- 7: Cancer and the Immune System -- 8: Common Cancers and Their Genetic Alterations -- 9: Cancer Detection and Prognostication…
This book provides a unique, wide-ranging description of the phenomenon of cancer and its pathological effects in diverse species including humans, domesticated and wild animals, invertebrates, and plants. The broad scope of information presented is used to construct radical new insights into biolo…
Table of Contents:; Section 1 Putting cancer genetics into context -- Section 2 Cancer genetics: the basics -- Section 3 Genetics of specific cancers -- Section 4 Cancer risk assessment and communicating risk -- Section 5 Early detection of hereditary cancer -- Section 6 Reducing the risk of cancer…
Table of contents:; The evolution of lifespans and disease avoidance -- Understanding evolution at organismal and somatic levels -- The evolution of multicellularity and tumor suppression -- Mechanisms of tumor suppression -- Dominant views on the mechanisms of oncogenesis -- Adaptive oncogenesis -…
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Wishes; History; What's next?; Hope; Magic; Conflict; 100 things; Conversation; Why?; Credits
c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library AV Room | Available |
c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library AV Room | Available |