EDITED BY Connie Henke Yarbro, Debra Wujcik, Barbara Holmes Gobel 2011 Cancer nurses throughout the world have used Cancer Nursing: Principles and Practice for almost a quarter of a century. Thus, it is an honor to welcome our readers to the Seventh Edition of this definitive text. With this edition, we enter a new era by welcoming Debra Wujcik […]
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Edited by Paul Q Montgomery Peter H Rhys Evans Patrick J Gullane 2009 On a worldwide scale head and neck malignancy represents the 5th most common cancer and nowhere in the field of human oncology are the effects of progression of disease more readily apparent, more cosmetically deforming, and more functionally and psychologically disturbing than in this region. Unlike […]
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EDITORS: James Paul O’Neill Jatin P. Shah 2015 The term “cancer of the head and neck” generally includes neoplasms arising from the mucosa of the upper aerodigestive tract, including the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses, as well as tumors of the salivary glands, thyroid and parathyroid glands, and neoplasms arising from the skin, soft tissues, and bones of […]
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Editor Henry M. Kuerer 2010 The fields of oncology, general surgery, and surgical oncology have merged and evolved into the new specialty of breast surgical oncology. The intention of this textbook is to endow practitioners who treat breast diseases with cutting-edge, evidence-based information along with the clinical nuances related to the field of breast surgical oncology in order to help set […]
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Parvin Mehdipour Editor 2013 Telomeres define and predict the fate of our cells, and are capable to direct the manner of quality and the quantitative values in the specific biological and molecular events. Telomeres could be also named as ‘Frontiers in cells’ By looking at a carved tree, we realize the multifarious position of circles indicative of its age.
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Andrew J. Dannenberg • Nathan A. Berger Editors 2013 As the worldwide obesity pandemic expands, obesity has been associated with an increased risk of more and more cancer types. The original malignancies shown to be associated with obesity included esophageal adenocarcinoma, colon cancer, renal cell cancer, postmenopausal breast cancer, endometrial cancer, and advanced prostate cancer.
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Wei Wu • Hani Choudhry Editors 2013 Volume 1: Decoding the Cancer Genome This book is to introduce state-of-the-art Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies for cancer genome research and to show a broad audience, including cancer biologists and oncologists, the technology revolution that is occurring in high- throughput DNA sequencing and the paradigm shifts that it is causing […]
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Suresh Alahari Editor 2013 Cancer is a complex and multistep process involving the accumulation of multiple changes that eventually transform normal cells into cancer cells. These changes include structural and expression abnormalities of both coding and non-coding genes. Most cancer-related deaths are not caused by primary tumors but by the spread of cancer cells from the original site to […]
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Abraham Haim • Boris A. Portnov 2013 Humans are diurnal organisms whose biological clock and temporal organization depend on natural light/dark cycles. Throughout evolution, changes in the photoperiod were a signal for seasonal acclimatization of physiological and immune systems as well as of behavioral patterns. The invention of electrical light bulbs created more opportunities for work and leisure.
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Anton G. Kutikhin • Arseniy E. Yuzhalin Elena B. Brusina 2013 This book is devoted to the role of infectious agents in the etiology of human cancer. Over the years of cancer investigation, a lot of discoveries in this field were made, and many associations between various biological carcinogens and cancer risk were revealed.
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