Developmental Biology of Neoplastic Growth
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Beschreibung
In this book, tumour growth is perceived as a deviation from the normal development of the human organism. The molecular, cellular, and tissue determinants of different tumours are discussed showing that each is a different disease, often corresponding to a particular developmental stage. The natural history of several cancers illustrates how clinical incidence can be just the visible part of the iceberg, while the first changes at the tissue level sometimes occur several years before tumour growth becomes manifest. Several mechanisms are proposed to explain the distribution of cancers during the human life span and the decline of the incidence of cancers during human senescence.
In this book, tumour growth is perceived as a deviation from the normal development of the human organism. The molecular, cellular, and tissue determinants of different tumours are discussed showing that each is a different disease, often corresponding to a particular developmental stage. The natural history of several cancers illustrates how clinical incidence can be just the visible part of the iceberg, while the first changes at the tissue level sometimes occur several years before tumour growth becomes manifest. Several mechanisms are proposed to explain the distribution of cancers during the human life span and the decline of the incidence of cancers during human senescence.
First book discussing the relationship between tumour growth and the developmental stages of the organism, at the molecular, cellular, tissue, and organism levels Challenges the current paradigm of the cancers-aging relationship
Autor*in
Alvaro Macieira-Coelho
Themen in »Developmental Biology of Neoplastic Growth«
Cancer Research Development Stem Cells Telomeres developmental biology regulation senescence tissue