Epigenetics in Cancer Prevention
Subtitle: Early Detection and Risk Assessment (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, V. 983)
Contributors: National Cancer Institute (Corporate Author)
Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781573314312
Subjects: Oncology; Risk factors; Genetic aspects; Prevention; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Congresses; Cancer
First sentence: The transition to malignancy requires an extensive reconfiguration of the genome's expression program that does not result entirely from actual changes in primary DNA sequence-i.e., mutation.