After the discovery of milk fat globule-epidermal growth factor-factor 8 (MFG-E8) about two decades ago, a new era of delineating its potential beneficial role in several inflammatory diseases has begun to spout from the bench to translational research.
Revealing essential roles of the tumor microenvironment in cancer progression, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research on the role of interleukins in the tumor microenvironment.
This book aims to equip readers with a better understanding of neuroendocrine tumors of the abdomen and explains how to manage them optimally by making use of novel therapeutic options that represent major advances on previous treatments.
This exhaustive work shows that new therapies using anti-angiogenic drugs are of particular importance because they can be used against many different types of cancer, as tumor angiogenesis seems to be involved in most if not all solid metastasizing malignancies.
Computational Epigenetics and Diseases, written by leading scientists in this evolving field, provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge knowledge of computational epigenetics in human diseases.
Since the discovery of microRNAs (miRNAs) some twenty years ago by Victor Ambros, David Baulcombe and Gary Ruvkun, these three scientists worked to uncover the mystery of miRNA, the small segments of nucleotides that silence genes.
Brain metastases are the most common malignant tumors of the central nervous system, yet their incidence appears to be increasing in spite of the advancement of cancer therapies.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of medullary thyroid carcinoma, both in the more common sporadic form and in the familial form, multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) types 2A and 2B.
This book presents an up-to-date and thorough overview of cancer of unknown primary, encompassing topics ranging from epidemiology, tumor biology, and prognostic factors through to the most recent diagnostic and therapeutic advances.
Highly illustrated clinical review of diagnosis, staging and treatment of pancreatic cancer by expert multidisciplinary author team for wide readership.
This volume focuses on our current understanding of the molecular underpinnings of prostate cancer and their potential application for precision medicine approaches.
This collection of chapters describes in detail the latest insights into the evaluation of resectability and neoadjuvant therapy to pancreaticoduodenectomy and distal pancreatectomy for pancreatic cancer.
This volume covers the most important areas of glioblastoma - surgical resection, molecular pathology, targeted therapies, cancer stem cells, the role of DNA methylation, targeted sequencing for personalized therapy, animal models and advances in pediatric glioblastoma.
The "e;Atlas Effectors of Anti-Tumor Immunity"e; is a unique scientific publication, which includes major issues of up-to-date information about immunophenotype, morphology and function of main effectors of anti-tumor immunity presented in a reasonable format.
The idea to compile recent results on the ectoenzymes aminopeptidase N/CD13 and dipeptidylpeptidase IV/CD26 arose from the great interest given by readers world-wide to the two proceedings volumes edited by us in 1997 and 2000 (Ansorge and Langner, 1997; Langner and Ansorge, 2000).
Das Buch beinhaltet übersichtlich und prägnant eine Zusammenstellung aller in der Schmerztherapie wichtigen Arzneimittel, deren Wirkungen, Nebenwirkungen und Kombinationsmöglichkeiten.
Craniopharyngiomas: A Comprehensive Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment and Outcome is a comprehensive guide to the science, diagnosis and treatment of craniopharyngiomas, rare brain tumors that grow near the pituitary gland.
Your trusted, no-nonsense guide to detecting and managing breast cancer From the breast health experts at the American Breast Cancer Foundation comes a sensitive and authoritative guide to the most common cancer in women: breast cancer.
The purpose of this book, which is written mainly for pharmacothera- pists, is to draw the physician's attentions, through specific examples, to iatrogenic (i.
Gibt es in den Zeiten der durch das Internet schnellen Verfügbarkeit von Fachartikeln, Review- Artikeln, Guidelines und anderen Informationen eine Notwendigkeit ein Buch zur Hämostas- logie herauszugeben?
The book thoroughly presents Transarterial Chemoembolization (TACE), a procedure representing the standard of care for several clinical oncological indications.
Gallbladder Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide to Management was planned as a thorough, yet objective text about gallbladder cancer, encompassing from epidemiology and pathogenesis to the present cutting edge technology and ongoing research.
This book presents in a comprehensive way cur- the clinical care of the patient with head and neck rent advances in the management of neoplasia cancer involvement and/or its complications.
Advanced skin cancer is one that has already metastasized beyond its primary origin, or one that has invaded underlying tissues such that surgical resection either is technically impossible or would lead to an unacceptable functional or cosmetic outcome.
Liver metastases are a frequent and often fatal occurrence in cancer patients, particularly those with malignancies of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
Mammography can be thought of as a (sub)macroscopic "e;shadow pathology"e; - confident diagnosis necessitates comprehensive knowledge of breast pathology.
This book describes the principles and applications of radiofrequency treatments for various spinal indications, including disc herniation, discogenic and radicular pain, facet joint arthropathy, and benign and malignant lesions of the vertebral column.
