The Basic Science of Oncology
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Beschreibung
Review the fast-moving and critically important scientific advances in cancer causation, cancer biology, and the biology underlying cancer treatment with the best text in the field - the fourth edition of The Basic Science of Oncology.
Inside, leading oncology researchers, scholars, and clinicians explain cutting-edge advances in the understanding of cancer and their significance to cancer in the clinical setting. Important highlights of this edition include:
* the genetic basis of cancer, including chromosome analysis techniques
* new insights into the genetics of tumor progress and metastasis
* molecular pathways and DNA damage
* contribution of viruses to susceptibility
* tumor suppressor genes and oncogenes
* causes of drug resistance in chemotherapy
* hormone therapy
* pharmacology of anti-cancer drugs
* monoclonal antibody therapy
* new chapter on clinical radiotherapy
* and much more!
Autor*in
Ian F. Tannock