Overview
- comprehensive and up-to-date information
- excellent summary of present treatment options
- novel techniques in sentinel lymph node detection, colorectal stem cells and rectal cancer
- recent signalling pathways involved in colorectal cancer progression
- excellent discussion of immunology, angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis with relation to colorectal cancer
Part of the book series: Cancer Metastasis - Biology and Treatment (CMBT, volume 14)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide, and in many parts of the western world, it is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths.
This book covers colon cancer metastasis from the most fundamental aspects to clinical practice. Major topics include physiopathology, genetic and epigenetic controls, cancer initiating cells, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, growth factors and signalling, cell adhesion, natures of liver metastasis, angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis, inflammatory response, prognostic markers, sentinel node and staging, and finally diagnosis and treatment.
Each chapter has been contributed by leaders in the field. A key feature is that it connects with a large readership including students, fundamentalists and clinicians. Another specific feature of the book is that the chapters are written in a didactic and illustrative fashion. These characteristics coupled with the choice of the topics and authors, makes this book a reference in the field. It represents an essential acquisition for medical libraries, clinicians as well as medical and graduate students.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Metastasis of Colorectal Cancer
Editors: Nicole Beauchemin, Jacques Huot
Series Title: Cancer Metastasis - Biology and Treatment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8833-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8832-1Published: 04 August 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3293-3Published: 13 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8833-8Published: 23 July 2010
Series ISSN: 1568-2102
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1648
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 416
Topics: Cancer Research, Oncology, Molecular Medicine, Antibodies, Pathology