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Prostate Cancer and Bone Metastasis

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  • © 1992

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Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 324)

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Prostatic Cancer Bone Metastasis: An International Perspective

  2. Biology

  3. Models

  4. Pathology

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About this book

The biology of solid tumor metastasis has been the subject of significant scientific and clinical interest for years and while experimental evidence reveals that metastasis is not solely a random event, very little is known about the biology of metastasis originating from prostate cancer. This is in spite of the fact that the majority of prostate cancer patients die with metastatic lesions to the bone. Progress in understanding this most important aspect of prostate cancer has been hampered by the lack of suitable animal models and an inability to accurately quantify bone metastases and their responses to therapy. Over the past decade, scientists in Japan and the United States have steadily advanced our understanding of the cellular, molecular and immunologic biology of primary and disseminated prostate cancer. It is this body of new information, combined with advances in imaging techniques and prostate cancer tumor markers, that prompted the need for an in-depth assessment of bone metastasis of prostate cancer. Accordingly, on December 12, 1990, a group of basic and clinical investigators from Japan and the United States convened in Gotenba, Japan, to hold the first conference devoted solely to the basic biology and clinical aspects of bone metastases originating from prostate cancer. The cross-fertilization of ideas that was fostered through in-depth discussion of technological advances among various basic and clinical disciplines not only further advanced our understanding of prostate metastases to the bone, but suggested approaches for precise quantitative assessment of these lesions and their treatment.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, USA

    James P. Karr

  • Gunma University, Gunma, Japan

    Hidetoshi Yamanaka

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Prostate Cancer and Bone Metastasis

  • Editors: James P. Karr, Hidetoshi Yamanaka

  • Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3398-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44314-5Published: 30 November 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6501-3Published: 29 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-3398-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0065-2598

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 323

  • Topics: Oncology, Hematology, Internal Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine, Public Health, Epidemiology

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