Biomarkers in breast cancer
Subtitle: molecular diagnostics for predicting and monitoring therapeutic effect
By: edited by Giampietro Gasparini and Daniel F. Hayes.
Contributors: Gasparini, Giampietro.; Hayes, Daniel, 1951-
Series: Cancer drug discovery and development
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Breast -- Cancer -- Molecular diagnosis.; Breast -- Cancer -- Prognosis.; Tumor markers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Guidelines for the design of clinical studies for the development  and validation of therapeutically relevant biomarkers and biomarker-based classification systems / Richard M. Simon; value: Analytical aspects of biomarker immunoassays in cancer research / C. G. J. (Fred) Sweep, Chris M. G. Thomas and Manfred Schmitt; value: Tissue microarrays: state-of-the-art, pitfalls, and promises / Chungyeul Kim and Soonmyung Paik; value: Gene expression profiling with DNA microarrays / Michele De Bortoli and Nicoletta Biglia; value: Assays for gene amplification / Chungyeul Kim, Yongkuk Song, and Soonmyung Paik; value: Cell kinetics / Maria Grazia Daidone, Rosella Silvestrini, and Dino Amadori; value: Urokinase-type plasminogen activator and PAI-1 / Michael J. Duffy; value: Predictive value of c-erbb-2 for endocrine therapy and chemotherapy in breast cancer / Vered Stearns; value: Erb-b-2 as a therapeutic target  / Robert Mass; value: The epidermal growth factor receptor pathway as a selective; value: Molecular-targeting treatment in human breast cancer / Fortunato Ciardiello, Teresa Troiani, and Giampaolo Tortora; value: P-53 as a prognostic and predictive indicator / Daniela Kandioler and Raimund Jakesz; value: Occult metastatic cells in breast cancer patients / Stephan Braun, Julia Seeber, and Christian Marth; value: Circulating HER-2/neu / Allan Lipton ... [et al.]; value: Circulating vascular endothelial growth factor / Roberta Sarmiento ... [et al]; value: Detection of early tumor dissemination in patients with breast cancer / Debra Hawes and Richard J. Cote; value: New technologies/new markers/new challenges / Daniel F. Hayes and Giampietro Gasparini; value: Index.