Genetic susceptibility to cancer
By: by Seymour Garte.
Series: Developments in oncology ;; 79
Publisher: Kluwer Academic
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Cancer -- Genetic aspects.; Oncogenes.; Carcinogenesis.; Cancer -- Risk factors.
Description: "To what extent do genetic influences play a role in determining the cancer risk of individuals?"--BOOK JACKET. "Recent research has discovered that for many "sporadic" (non-familial) cancer cases, defects or aberrations in certain metabolic genes not previously associated with genetic cancer risk may contribute to either causing the disease or at least increasing the chances of developing cancer. It is therefore possible that much of what has previously passed for "bad luck" may turn out to be a new type of "bad genes.""--BOOK JACKET. "Genetic Susceptibility to Cancer explains that this new idea of "bad genes" may contain an unexpected positive side. The carcinogenic effects of these metabolic genes, unlike those of the oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes that are responsible for the inherited cancer syndromes, can be potentially overcome or nullified."--BOOK JACKET. "Genetic Susceptibility to Cancer will provide a valuable reference for health professionals, researchers, clinicians and biomedical scientists who are interested in current thinking in this critically important area of cancer management."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.