Cutting Edge Therapies for Cancer in the 21st Century

Publisher:Bentham Science

By: Pier Paolo Claudio and Paraskevi Vogiatzi

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|May 2014

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Cancer is a broad group of diseases involving unregulated cell growth with elevated death rates as more people live in old age with mass lifestyle changes occurring in the world. The causes of cancer are diverse complex and still only partially understood. The chances of surviving the disease vary remarkably by the type and location of the malignancy and the extent of disease at the start of treatment. Early cancer detection is proving to be a valid approach. Cancer can be detected in a number of ways including the presence of certain signs and symptoms screening tests or medical imaging. Cancer therapy is dynamically changing and revision and change in patient management is constant as our knowledge increases. Cancer is routinely treated with chemotherapy radiation therapy and surgery. Tailored cancer targeted therapy is becoming an emerging objective of today. In this book a constructive group of cancer research experts bring the reader their shared vision to give an extensive and realistic view of individual tumors such as breast oral prostate gastric and neuroendocrine tumors. New and contemporary terms and concepts in genetics and epigenetics diet anticancer treatments and anticancer drug delivery systems are introduced in this volume. This reference highlights present experimental strategies and key findings that enhance our understanding of cancer and of future therapies. This eBook is aimed at a broad audience of undergraduates medical students PhDs cancer researchers and also cancer patient families with the goal to conceive a curiosity about the subjects presented that will hopefully lead to further studies.

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PDF ISBN: 978-1-60805-880-8

Publisher: Bentham Science

Publication date: 2014

Language: English

Pages: 528

Related subjects:

Medicine,

Clinical medicine,

Internal medicine,

Haematology, oncology