Oncology

This volume provides the most recent developments and methodologies on metastatic process, formation, and detection.

This extensive book brings together leading melanoma researchers from across the world and highlights many of the cutting-edge protocols and experimental systems currently being used to investigate questions surrounding this disease.

This book provides a comprehensive collection of classic and cutting-edge methodologies as well as bioinformatics and genome-editing approaches that are used to quantify immune mediators and analyze their function and biological activity in cancer cells and tissues.

This volume provides comprehensive methods from expert scientists working in the  Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell (CAR-T Cell) field.

This volume explores the latest techniques used to characterize murine and human Innate Lymphoid Cells (ILC) subsets.

This book serves to introduce the technologies and applications of precision medicine.

This second edition provides an overview of recent developments and approaches used by researchers to investigate the properties and functions of mammary epithelial and stem cells, which will contribute to understand the heterogeneity of the mammary gland and of breast cancer.

This volume provides methods and techniques to further the study of cancer immunoprevention.

This volume provides current management and research protocols on oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

This detailed book explores the technical breakthroughs with biophysical and cell biological approaches that have advanced the study of molecular mechanisms underlying the generation and transduction of the hedgehog (HH) signal, indicating the important role of sterols in this pathway.

Proteomics: A Promising Approach for Cancer Research provides an updated overview of scientific knowledge, achievements and findings in the field of cancer proteomics.

This book serves as a guide for identifying and applying commonly used cell-based translational assays as well as for assessing the therapeutic potential of new immuno-oncology therapeutics and advancing their mechanism of action.

This volume presents techniques needed for the study of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in cancer from their identification to functional characterization.

Exploring the work of a Psych-Oncology Team in an inpatient and outpatient setting, this powerful, interesting, and engaging book is about teenagers and young adults diagnosed with cancer.

Despite advances in the delivery of high-quality cancer care and improvements in patient outcomes in recent years, disparities in cancer incidence, care, and patient outcomes persist.

This detailed volume provides a robust set of methods to understand variation between patients with ovarian cancers, in vitro models to better study different stages of the disease, and in vivo models to test therapies.

Focused on the discovery of precise molecular targets for the development of the cancer preventive agents, Cancer Prevention: Dietary Factors and Pharmacology provides researchers and non-researchers with practical methodologies for developing and validating small molecule and phytochemical-derived drug discovery and mechanisms by which these compounds can modulate distinct target proteins involved in oncogenic signaling.

Diverse molecular, cellular, and environmental events must all come together to allow the successful formation of secondary cancers, metastases.

This volumeexplores the evolution of bacterial cancer therapy and describes the moderntechniques used in therapy today.

This volume explores the latest techniques used to study tumor immunology.

Representing the most relevant procedures and technologies aiding the advance of the field of HPV-mediated carcinogenesis of the cervix and other anatomical regions of squamocolumnar transition, such as the anorectum, penis, and oropharynx, Cervical Cancer: Methods and Protocols compiles a detailed collection of practical chapters.

This book provides the immune oncology (IO) community with a deeper understanding of the scope of the biomarker methods to potentially improve the outcome from immunotherapy.

This volume presents state of the art of methods that can be useful for both basic and translational researchers to conduct chemoprevention preclinical studies.

This volume explores the latest synthetic procedures for producing receptor-specific retinoids and rexinoids, molecular biology methods, and new technologies to demonstrate the therapeutic activities of molecules.

This volume provides readers with detailed protocols covering the main cancer cytogenetics techniques needed for clinical utilization and research purposes.

This volume covers the mechanisms of pRb inactivation detailing repressive mechanisms commonly associated to cancer, and representative of the experimentally relevant tests used in the establishment of cancer diagnosis and prognosis.

This volume explores the still undiscovered secrets of tumor immunology and cancer immunology by discussing the methods and techniques that world-renowned experts in the field use in their laboratories.

This volume details cutting-edge protocols on the characterization of the genome, epigenome, proteome, metabolome and single-cell transcriptome of tumors and tumor-derived cultures.

This book aims to provide scientists with tools and well-researched protocols to enable their research and to facilitate further progress in this common leukemia.

This book covers core and emerging in vitro and in vivo protocols used to study how various components of the tumor microenvironment are established and subsequently interact with tumor cells to facilitate carcinogenesis.

This volume is a valuable and timely resource for a broad audience with interests in basic and translational cancer biology, cancer drug development, as well as in the practice of personalized oncology.

This volume discusses certain epigenetic changes recognized in early carcinogenic lesions and different tumors, as well as factors that alter the epigenome and epigenetic profile such as diet, alcohol, immunity, circadian rhythm, and more.

Cancer Genomics and Proteomics: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition includes methods for the analyses of cancer genome and proteome that have illuminated us about the changes in cancer cells.

This volume details basic principles of experimental and computational methods for the study of microRNAs in cancer research and, therefore, provides a firm grounding for those who wish to develop further applications.

This volume explores the latest developments in the study of the mechanisms, diagnostics, screening methods, and therapeutics of colorectal cancer.

This detailed volume explores the methods used for most of the recent approaches to suicide gene therapy of cancer, which exploits promoters that are specific to cancer cells, thereby ensuring (or greatly increasing the likelihood) that the therapeutic gene is expressed only in cancer cells.

This second edition volume expands on the previous edition with descriptions of recent developments in the field.

This volume provides a thorough guide of the study of multiple myeloma (MM)-from sample acquisition to the performance of molecular tests, and also discusses difficulties that arise during quality control and interpretation of results.

This third edition volume expands on the previous editions with discussions on the latest developments in 2D- and 3D-organoid cultures that allow for the execution of precision medicine, and in vitro studies of tumor cell growth and invasion.

This volume describes up-to-date techniques used in understanding the molecular biology of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and addressing advances in diagnosis, classification, prognostication, and therapeutic strategies to potentially impact overall patient survival.

This book explores the methionine dependence of cancer and its effects on aging, a great story of science that is not widely known.

This volume presents methods and protocols on modern analysis of steroid receptor and prostate cancer function.

This volume provides insight into recent developments on experimental and clinical strategies for cancer gene therapy.

This volume provides a thorough overview of the Wilms' Tumour Gene (WT1).

This volume explores various approaches for enrichment, detection, isolation, and molecular profiling of circulating tumor cells (CTCs).

This volume provides resources, ideas, and bench manuals for the study of breast cancer.

This detailed volume compiles the best methodologies and experimental techniques to profile and extract maximal data from brain tumor stem cells (BTSCs), the experimental paradigm for brain cancer research that offers insights into cancer stem cell populations that may drive not only tumor initiation but tumor recurrence and patient relapse.

This book aims to provide a guide for virologists, translational researchers, and clinicians in the field of cancer research by providing reference protocols and methodologies from vector development through clinical translation.

This book comprises protocols describing systems biology methodologies and computational tools, offering a variety of ways to analyze different types of high-throughput cancer data.

This volume provides a broad spectrum of research models, techniques, and protocols.