Cancer metastasis, molecular and cellular mechanisms and clinical intervention
By: edited by Wen G. Jiang and Robert E. Mansel
Series: Cancer metastasis -- v. 1; Cancer metastasis -- v. 1.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780306483882
Subjects: Oncology; HEALTH & FITNESS; Diseases; Cancer; Physiopathology; MEDICAL; Metastasis; Therapy; Neoplasm Metastasis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Metastatic cascade, molecular/cellular events and new therapeutic opportunities; title: Ch. 2. The role of integrin-mediated processes in the biology of metastasis; title: Ch. 3. The role of hyaluronan and its degradation products in tumour angiogenesis and metastasis; title: Ch. 4. The E-cadherin/catenin complex in invasion: the role of ectodomain shedding; title: Ch. 5. Cancer and cancer metastasis-related genes; title: Ch. 6. Hepatocyte growth factor and met in tumour invasion-metastasis: from mechanisms to cancer prevention; title: Ch. 7. Tight junctions, a critical structure in the control of cancer invasion and metastasis; title: Ch. 8. Bone marrow micrometastases detection and significance; title: Ch. 9. Polyunsaturated fatty acids and their role in cancer invasion and metastasis; title: Ch. 10. Metastatic endocrine cancer; title: Ch. 11. Prostate cancer; title: Ch. 12. Gastrointestinal tumours: cancer metastasis, molecular and cellular biology; title: Ch. 13. Breast cancer metastasis; title: Ch. 14. The malignant lymphomas; title: Ch. 15. Cancer metastasis: biological and clinical aspects, gynaecological cancer.