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Lung Cancer and Personalized Medicine: Novel Therapies and Clinical Management
Title:
Lung Cancer and Personalized Medicine: Novel Therapies and Clinical Management
Author:
Ahmad, Aamir. editor.
ISBN:
9783319249322
Edition:
1st ed. 2016.
Physical Description:
X, 231 p. 22 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
Series:
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 890
Abstract:
This, the second of two volumes on personalized medicine in lung cancer, touches upon the recent progress in targeted drug development based on genomics; emerging biomarkers and therapeutic targets such as EMT, cancer stem cells, and the tumor microenvironment; current personalized clinical management and radiation therapy for lung cancers; and the promise of epigenetics and next-generation sequencing for the advancements towards personalized therapy of lung cancer patients. With chapters on state-of-the-art therapies and technologies written by leading experts working to develop novel companion diagnosis tools for the personalized treatment of lung cancer patients, this volume brings readers up-to-date by presenting the current knowledge on the efforts to make personalized management of lung cancer patients a reality. .
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