Ovarian cancer
Subtitle: state of the art and future directions in translational research
By: George Coukos, Andrew Berchuck, Robert Ozols, editors.
Contributors: Coukos, George.; Berchuck, Andrew.; Ozols, Robert F.
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 622
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780387689661
Subjects: Ovaries -- Cancer -- Diagnosis.; Ovaries -- Cancer -- Treatment.; Ovarian Neoplasms.; Ovarian Neoplasms -- diagnosis.; Ovarian Neoplasms -- therapy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Potential and limitations in early diagnosis of ovarian cancer / Nicole Urban and Charles Drescher; value: SMRP and HE4 as biomarkers for ovarian carcinoma when used alone and in combination with CA125 and/or each other / Ingegerd Hellstrom and Karl Erik Hellstrom; value: Classification of ovarian cancer : a genommic analysis / Michael P. Stany ... [et al.]; value: Epigenetic markers of ovarian cancer / Caroline A. Barton ... [et al.]; value: Role of genetic polymorphisms in ovarian cancer susceptibility : development of an international ovarian cancer association consortium / Andrew Berchuck ... [et al.]; value: MicroRNA in human cancer : one step forward in diagnosis and treatment / Lin Zhang, Nuo Yang, and George Coukos; value: Ovarian carcinogenesis : an alternative hypothesis / Jurgen M.J. Piek, Paul J. van Diest, and René H.M. Verheijen; value: BRCA1-induced ovarian oncogenesis / Louis Dubeau; value: Role of p53 and Rb in ovarian cancer / David C. Corney ... [et al.]; value: Ovulatory factor in ovarian carcinogenesis / William J. Murdoch; value: Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG-USA) trials in ovarian cancer / Robert F. Ozols; value: Intraperitoneal chemotherapy for ovarian cancer / Mark A. Morgan; value: Ovarian cancer : can we reverse drug resistance? / David S.P. Tan, Joo Ern Ang, and Stan B. Kaye; value: Syngeneic mouse model of epithelial ovarian cancer : effects of nanoparticulate paclitaxel, Nanotas / Katherine F. Roby ... [et al.]; value: Individualized molecular medicine : linking functional proteomics to select therapeutics targeting the PI3K pathway for specific patients / Mandi M. Murph ... [et al.]; value: Defective apoptosis underlies chemoresistance in ovarian cancer / Karen M. Hajira, Lijun Tan, and J. Rebecca Liu; value: Nanoparticle delivery of suicide DNA for epithelial ovarian cancer therapy / Janet A. Sawicki, Daniel G. Anderson, and Robert Langer; value: Biological therapy with oncolytic herpesvirus / Fabian Benencia and George Coukos; value: Cancer immunotherapy : perspectives and prospects / Sonia A. Perez and Michael Papamichail; value: Regulatory T cells : a new frontier in cancer immunotherapy / Brian G. Barnett ... [et al.]; value: Inhibitory B7 family members in human ovarian carcinoma / Shuang Wei ... [et al.]; value: Role of vascular leukocytes in ovarian cancer neovascularization / Klara Balint ... [et al.]; value: Heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor as a new target molecule for cancer therapy / Shingo Miyamoto ... [et al.]