Hormones, age and cancer
By: edited by Lev Berstein
Contributors: Dilʹman, V. M. (Vladimir Mikhaĭlovich); Nauchno-issledovatelʹskiĭ institut onkologii im. N.N. Petrova
Publisher: Nauka; NAUKA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: St. Petersburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Neoplasms; Etiology; Hormones; Neoplasms, Hormone-Dependent; Aging; Pathology; Metabolic Diseases
Other titles: Gormony, vozrast i rak
Notes: T.p., contents, list of contributors, and foreward in English and Russian.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / N.P. Napalkov; title: Landmarks in the life of Vladimir Dilman as a scientist, teacher, human being / E.V. Tsyrlina; title: Vladimir Dilman: pioneer in the integrative understanding of pathological aging processes / C.E. Finch; title: Modern concepts of hormonal carcinogenesis: mechanisms predisposing factors, consequences / L.M. Berstein; title: Cell proliferation and cancer therapy / M.V. Blagosklonny; title: Neuroendocrine modulation of menopause: evolution of our thinking / P.M. Wise, L.M. Gerhold and A.B. Cashion; title: Carcinogenic aging / V.N. Anisimov; title: Antidepressant effect of N-acetylserotonin in relation to aging, hypertension and cancer / G.F. Oxenkrug; title: Adipocytokines, insulin resistance and main non-communicable diseases / Y. Matsuzawa; title: Metabolic immunodepression revisited / A.G. Golubev and S.Yu. Revskoy; title: Hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer in postmenopausal women / T. Gathani and V. Beral; title: Our endogenous "pineal clock" and cancer. Cancer and non-cancer. Strategies for early detection, prevention and cure of neoplastic processes / W. Pierpaoli; title: Glucocorticoid action networks and systemic complex diseases / G.P. Chrousos and T. Kino; title: The twin epidemic; title: diabetes and obesity: the health challenge of the 21st century / P. Zimmet and D. Chisholm; title: Selected bibliography of Vladimir Dilman.