Hormonal Carcinogenesis IV

Title:

Author:

Li, Jonathan J. editor.

ISBN:

9780387237619

Physical Description:

XXVI, 546 p. online resource.

Contents:

State of the Art Lectures -- Breast Cancer I: Progesterone Action -- Breast Cancer II: Mechanisms of Genomic Instability -- Early In-Situ Lesions: Breast and Prostate -- Promotion/Prevention of Hormone Cancers -- Prostate I: Androgen/Estrogen Action -- Prostate II: Androgen Receptor Dependence/Resistance -- Endometrium/Ovarian/Colon -- Communications -- Epidemiology/Human Derived Studies -- Breast Cancer -- Endometrial/Cervical Cancer -- Prostate Cancer -- Hormone Metabolism & Cell/Molecular Biology -- Breast Cancer -- Endometrial Cancer -- Ovary/Pituitary/Kidney/Liver Cancers -- Prostate Cancer.

Abstract:

Uniquely, Hormonal Carcinogenesis IV, integrates salient aspects of hormone-related cancers of interest to epidemiologists, basic researchers, and clinicians. The most recent advances in the major hormone-related cancers are presented by leaders of their specialty. The chapters in this volume deal with the causation, dependence, and resistance of endocrine-related cancers with particular emphasis on the most common neoplasms occuring in men and woman world wide, such as breast, prostate, uterine, and ovarian cancers.

Subject Term:

Medicine & Public Health.

Cancer Research.

Medical Microbiology.

Cell Biology.

Added Author:

Li, Jonathan J.

Li, Sara A.