From Molecular to Modular Tumor Therapy
Albrecht Reichle Editor 2010 Tumors are Reconstructible Communicatively Evolving Systems
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Dietary Components and Immune Function
Edited by Ronald R. Watson Sherma Zibadi Victor R. Preedy 2010 The Strategic Plan of the United States’ National Institute of Health stresses the pursuit of mechanistic studies as an overarching priority. Among the basic mechanisms identified as needing exploration are immune-focused studies. Many dietary components are believed to exert their activities by modulating immune function.
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Boris Pasche Editor 2010
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Michael F. Ochs ● John T. Casagrande Ramana V. Davuluri Editors 2010
Continue reading →Atlas of Mohs and Frozen Section Cutaneous Pathology
Michael B. Morgan, John R. Hamill, James M. Spencer Editors 2010 This atlas is intended for practitioners in the fields of dermatologic surgery including Mohs cutaneous surgeons, pathologists who examine frozen section specimens derived from the skin and dermatopathologists, respectively. This book will serve as a reference pictorial atlas detailing both common and challenging cutaneous neoplasms.
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Gisela Dallenbach-Hellweg • Dietmar Schmidt Friederike Dallenbach 2010 This new edition differs from the preceding ones in that there has been extensive revision of most chapters. Recent advances in research gained by immunohistochemical, molecular biological, and cytogenetic methods are included, as far as they are applicable for daily diagnostic work.
Continue reading →SUPPORTIVE CARE IN CANCER THERAPY
Edited by DAVID S. ETTINGER 2009 Patients with cancer, in general, are living longer. Even those with advanced, metastatic disease have shown an increase in the length of their survival. For many, cancer has become a “chronic” disease.
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Edited by Donna P. Ankerst Catherine M. Tangen Ian M. Thompson 2009 We are entering a remarkable time in medicine. In the USA and other countries, preventive medicine and public health efforts have successfully increased life expectancy substantially; concurrently, the demographics of the post-World War II population tells us that the over-50 population will dramatically increase over the […]
Continue reading →Hormone Receptors in Breast Cancer
Suzanne A.W. Fuqua Editor 2009 Since radiolabeled estrogens were first observed in the early 1960s to be preferentially concentrated in estrogen target organs — observations that gave rise to the concept of an ‘‘estrogen receptor (ER),’’ it has become clear that many human breast cancers are dependent on estrogen for their growth.
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Frederick O. Stephens · Karl R. Aigner 2009 In Western societies and other developed countries, cancer is the leading cause of death, after cardiovascular disease. It is therefore a major component of medical undergraduate curricula and of primary concern to nurses and allied health-workers.
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