Cancer biology
Subtitle: an updated global overview
By: Tarek H. El-Metwally.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers; Nova Biomedical
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9781608761937
Subjects: Cancer; Neoplasms -- metabolism; Neoplasms -- etiology; Tumor Markers, Biological -- metabolism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cancer definition and classification; title: Cellular carcinogenesis is a monoclonal multistep threshold phenomenon; title: The genetic and molecular changes leading to cancer are of five types; title: Causes of cancer; title: Cellular changes associating malignant transformation (dedifferentiation); title: Tumor recurrence and metastasis; title: Tumor markers; title: Natural inhibitors of the multistage carcinogenesis; title: Biochemical bases of current anticancer treatments.