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"A key resource for all genetic counselors and other healthcare providers, this comprehensive reference has been completely updated and reorganized for its fourth edition; Over 50 hereditary cancer predisposition genes have now been identified. Genetic testing can be a powerful tool in assessing in…
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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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…
The thoroughly updated and revised third edition of Management of Prostate Cancer provides concise and authoritative guidance to today's best therapeutic regimens for the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. Highlighting the latest major advances in the field, the book includes chapters on t…
Cancer during pregnancy is a rare event, occurring approximately once per 1,000 pregnancies annually. Treatment of cancer can often be safely administered with good maternal and fetal outcomes. Chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery must be adapted to the pregnancy state. Psychological support is …
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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.
Content:; Current scenario of breast cancer in India -- Applied anatomy for breast cancer -- Applied physiology for breast cancer -- Aetiopathogenesis and prevention of breast cancer -- Classification of breast cancer -- Approach to a new suspected patient of of breast cancer, including diagnostic …
Contents:; Part 1: The wellness mandala: holistic stress management. The nature of stress -- The body: the battlefield for the mind's war games -- The emotions: from a motivation of fear to a motivation of love -- The mind: the psychology of stress -- The spirit: health of the human spirit -- Part …
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…
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…
Table of Contents:; Epidemiology and risk factors for breast cancer -- Primary and secondary prevention of breast cancer --Premalignant changes and in situ carcinoma -- Natural history of invasive breast cancer -- Histology of breast cancer -- Clinical and pathological staging -- Molecular factors …
Table of Contents:; Breast Imaging: Tomosynthesis, Elastography, Breast MRI and Emerging Techniques -- Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy -- Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy: Current Perspectives -- Management of the Axilla in Breast Cancer -- Margins and Breast Cancer -- Percutaneous Ablation in the T…