Innovative endocrinology of cancer
By: edited by Lev M. Berstein, Richard J. Santen.
Contributors: Berstein, Lev M.; Santen, Richard J.
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 630
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media; Landes Bioscience
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York; Austin, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780387788173
Subjects: Cancer -- Endocrine aspects; Breast Neoplasms -- physiopathology; Breast Neoplasms -- drug therapy; Estrogen Receptor Modulators -- pharmacology; Receptors, Estrogen -- physiology; Receptors, Progesterone -- physiology
Description: This volume is devoted to the new developments in such topics as mechanisms of hormonal carcinogenesis, epidemiology and risk factors, hormone production by tumor tissue and hormonal sensitivity of the latter, genesis, dichotomy and endocrinology of cancer in females, pharmacogenomics and proteomics in oncoendocrinology, biological core of hormonal and antihormonal therapy of cancer and its prevention.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.