Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology (PMSB, volume 40)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Developmental Biology of Neoplastic Growth
Editors: Alvaro Macieira-Coelho
Series Title: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27671-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-25009-8Published: 20 May 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06400-5Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-27671-5Published: 04 November 2005
Series ISSN: 0079-6484
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8484
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 254
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Developmental Biology, Cancer Research, Cell Biology, Molecular Medicine, Medical Biochemistry