Diabetes and cancer
Subtitle: epidemiological evidence and molecular links
By: volume editors, K. Masur, F. Thévenod, K.S. Zá̈nker.
Contributors: Masur, K.; Thévenod, F.; Zänker, Kurt S.
Series: Frontiers in diabetes -- v. 16
Publisher: Karger; S. Karger AG (Switzerland); S. Karger
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Basel; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9783805586405
Subjects: Diabetes -- Epidemiology; Diabetes -- Molecular aspects; Metabolic syndrome -- Complications; Cancer -- Etiology; Diabetes Mellitus -- epidemiology; Diabetes Mellitus -- metabolism; Risk Factors; Metabolic Syndrome X -- complications; Neoplasms -- etiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus type 2 : roles of obesity, insulin resistance, and B-cell dysfunction / Thévenod, F; title: In vivo B-cell imaging in diabetes, B-cell hyperplasia, and insulinoma; title: / Otthardt, M., Béhé, M., Lasser, T.; title: Incretin-based therapies for the treatment of type 2 diabetes - DPP-4 inhibitors and incretin mimetics / Gallwitz, B.; title: Janus face of glucose and glucose-regulating hormones / Masur, K.; title: Role of glucose metabolism in carcinogenesis and cancer progression / Gatenby, R.A.; title: Glucose transporters : their abnormalities and significance in type 2 diabetes and cancer / Schürmann, A.; title: The epidemiologic relationship between diabetes and cancer / Zänker, K.S.; title: Diabetes mellitus and breast cancer / Wolf, I., Rubinek, T.; title: Nutrition, diabetes, and cancer / LaValle, J.B.; title: Diabetes and cancer : the road ahead / Masur, K., Thévenod, F., Zänker, K.S.