Breast cancer
Subtitle: prognosis, treatment, and prevention
By: edited by Jorge R. Pasqualini.
Contributors: Pasqualini, Jorge R.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9781420058727
Subjects: Breast -- Cancer; Breast Neoplasms; Breast Neoplasms -- prevention & control; Breast Neoplasms -- therapy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Breast architecture and the pathogenesis of cancer / Jose Russo and Irma H. Russo; title: The enzymatic systems in the formation and transformation of estrogens in normal and cancerous human breast : control and potential clinical applications / Jorge R. Pasqualini and Gerard S. Chetrite; title: Pregnancy and breast cancer / Jan Wohlfahrt and Mads Melbye; title: The cellular origins of breast cancer subtypes / Andrew H. Sims ... [et al.]; title: The importance of estrogen receptors in breast cancer / Raquel Schiff, Jennifer Selever, and Suzanne A.W. Fuqua; title: Progesterone receptor isoforms and human breast cancer / Anne Gompel and Aurelie Courtin; title: Compensatory signalling promoted by antihormones and anti-growth factor therapies in breast cancer : a starting point for the development of resistance to targeted treatment / Robert I. Nicholson ... [et al.]; title: Apoptosis, cell death and breast cancer / Ayesha N. Shajahan, Rebecca B. Riggins, and Robert Clarke; title: Aromatase inhibitors and their application to the treatment of breast cancer / Angela M.H. Brodie; title: Aromatase inhibition in breast cancer : update of clinical applications / Paula D. Ryan and Paul E. Goss; title: Testosterone, other androgens and breast cancer / Jean- Pierre Raynaud, Michelle Pujos-Gautraud and Jorge R. Pasqualini; title: Combination of breast cancer prevention with tissue-targeted hormone replacement therapy / Fernand Labrie; title: Practical progress in the chemoprevention of breast cancer with selective estrogen receptor modulators / Gregor M. Balaburski and V. Craig Jordan; title: Oncostatic effect of analogs of LHRH on breast cancer / Andrew V. Schally and Jorg B. Engel; title: Vitamin D and breast cancer / Joellen Welsh; title: Insulin-like growth factor signaling in normal mammary gland development and breast cancer progression / Angelo Casa ... [et al.]; title: Insulin-like growth factor-I and breast cancer : epidemiological and clinical data / Carlo Campagnoli ... [et al.]; title: Proliferation of breast cells by steroid hormones and their metabolites / Helenius J. Kloosterboer ... [et al.]; title: Lignans and breast cancer / Herman Adlercreutz; title: Breast cancer risk, soyfood intake and isoflavone exposure : a review of the in vitro, animal, epidemiologic, and clinical literature  / Mark Messina; title: Body size and breast cancer / Ling Yang, Marie Lef, and Elisabete Weiderpass; title: Antiangiogenic therapy of breast cancer : rationale and clinical results / Raffaele Longo ... [et al.]; title: Cytotoxic therapy and other nonhormonal approaches for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer / Christine M. Pellegrino and Joseph A. Sparano; title: Adjuvant and neoadjuvant systemic chemotherapy and biologic therapy for operable and locally advanced breast cancer / Joseph A. Sparano; title: BRCA1, BRCA2, and hereditary breast cancer / Betsy A. Bove.