HER2 and cancer
Subtitle: mechanism, testing, and targeted therapy
By: Sophie I. Williams and Christopher E. Rogers, editors
Series: Cancer etiology, diagnosis and treatments; Cancer etiology, diagnosis, and treatments
Publisher: Nova Biomedical Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781611226508
Subjects: HER-2 gene; Receptor, erbB-2; Breast; Cancer; Drug Delivery Systems; HER-2 protein; Genetic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Targeting HER2 with photodynamic therapy / Ján Koval ... [et al.]; title: Investigating molecular mechanisms of specificity in regulation of the HER2 receptor tyrosine kinase through molecular modeling and simulation / Shannon E. Telesco ... [et al.]; title: The HER2 shedding and its consequences on breast cancer / Pierre-Jean Lamy, Anne-Sophie Gauchez, and Chantal Tse; title: The role of HER2 in targeted cancer therapy and hypothesized future perspectives / Luca Monfregola and Stefania De Luca; title: HER2 positive primary breast cancer in older women : clinical significance and therapeutic challenge / B.M. Syed ... [et al.]; title: Influence of psychological stress on initiation, progression, metastasis in breast cancer / Ming Shi ... [et al.]; title: Development of trastuzumab resistance : is it only in signaling? / Timothy Kute, John R. Stehle; title: Targeted nanomedicines conjugated with HER2 antibodies in cancer therapy / Jie Gao ... [et al.]; title: Topoisomerase II-alpha index predicts the efficacy of anthracycline-based chemotherapy for breast cancers / Kiyomi Taniyama ... [et al.]; title: Role of 16HER2 splice variant in breast tumor progression and response to HER2-targeted therapy / Serenella M. Pupa ... [et al.]; title: Molecular profiling of HER2-related protein networks in formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded cancer tissues / Daniela Berg and Karl-Friedrich Becker; title: HER2 and the ErbB Network / Mylin Torres, Ryan Ballenger, and Joel Kochanski.