Cancer Genetics and Psychotherapy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxviii

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2. Psycho-oncology: The Relationship Between Psychology, Personality and Cancer

   • Shahriar Shahidi

   Pages 1-12

3. Psychotherapy in Cancer

   • Adrian Furnham, Kelly Petropoulou, Shahriar Shahidi

   Pages 13-29

4. New Developments in Psycho-oncology

   • Winfried Rief, Carola Seifart, Yvonne Nestoriuc

   Pages 31-43

5. Psychiatric and Psychosocial Aspects of Breast Cancer Diagnoses and Treatments

   • Mohammad Kamran Derakhshan, Mohammad Hamid Karbassian

   Pages 45-77

6. Cancer Genetics at a Glance: The Comprehensive Insights

   • Asaad Azarnezhad, Parvin Mehdipour

   Pages 79-389

7. The Relevance of Genetic Factors in Tumor Therapy and the Underlying Pharmacogenetic Principles

   • Gesa Schwanitz, Gabriele Rittner, Lieselotte Kalz

   Pages 391-403

8. Genetic Counselling for Cancer Susceptibility

   • Shirley V. Hodgson

   Pages 405-424

9. Cancer, Psychotherapy and the Airway

   • Zahid Hussain Khan

   Pages 425-450

10. Female Reproductive System and Cancer

    • Natalia Jančárková

    Pages 451-498

11. Cancers of the Endocrine System

    • Mohammad Amin Tabatabaiefar, Abbas Moridnia, Laleh Shariati

    Pages 499-530

12. A Comprehensive Look at Oromaxillofacial and Laryngopharyngeal Cancers

    • Samira Basir Shabestari, Iman Shirinbak, Roya Azadarmaki

    Pages 531-587

13. Gastrointestinal Cancers

    • Mohammad Amin Tabatabaiefar, Abbas Moridnia

    Pages 589-625

14. Genetic and Cellular Complexity of Brain Tumors

    • Fatemeh Karami, Parvin Mehdipour

    Pages 627-665

15. Genetic, Hematologic and Psychological Aspects of Leukemia

    • Marjan Yaghmaie, Mohammad Ahmadvand, Ali-akbar Nejati Safa, Hossein Pashaiefar

    Pages 667-755

16. Cancer Stem Cell: From Conjecture to Reality

    • Vahid Ezzatizadeh

    Pages 757-787

17. Cancer Immunotherapy: Friend or Foe of Mental Health?

    • Amene Saghazadeh, Nima Rezaei

    Pages 789-823

18. Challenges of Endocrine Therapy in Breast Cancer

    • Sepideh Mansouri, Azin Teymourzadeh, Leila Farahmand, Keivan Majidzadeh-A

    Pages 825-850

19. Skin Cancer: Genetics, Immunology, Treatments, and Psychological Care

    • Soheil Tavakolpour, Maryam Daneshpazhooh, HamidReza Mahmoudi

    Pages 851-934

20. Alternative or Complementary Medicine: History and Legacy

    • Heinz Schott

    Pages 935-950

The aim of this book is to provide the readers with the most comprehensive and latest accounts of research and development in this field by emphasizing on the manner of relation between doctors and cancer patients in direction of improving the patients’ style of life. This book, partly, will deal with psychotherapy by considering cancer patients, benefits, hazards and also social impacts including life style. The social supports as the key and influential paradigms will be challenged as a comparative insight by considering the global unity in order to provide a reasonable model to improve the interaction between cancer and psychological nest.

In this book, the real stories of cancer patient will be also provided.

 

The initial insight of sections includes:

1)    Brief classifications and key points of clinical and histopatological aspects of each organ.

2)    Brief view of genetic alterations in each organ.

3)    Therapeutic aspects.

4)    Brief classifications and key points of Psychology in cancer.

5) The interactions of clinical aspects with psychological field.

• Cancer
• Cancer Genetics
• Cancer therapy
• Nutrigenomics
• Psychotherapy

• Department of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  Parvin Mehdipour

Professor Parvin Mehdipour has mainly focused on Cancer Genetics by considering the multi-disciplinary manner in her academic and research life through 34 years in Tehran University of Medical Sciences. She was inspired by puzzling the road maps of Genetic and tumor biology to find the directions and cross roads in cancer and cross-talk between the cancer cells. She had scientific links with DKFZ, Institutes of Human Genetics and Institute of Medical Genetics in Erlangen-Nuerenberg, Bonn, Humboldt/berlin, Dresden- and Manchester- University. She has initiated a cancer project on leukemia at Department of Genetics, Royal Liverpool hospital, University of Liverpool as her PhD thesis. Since then she was exploring on solid tumors to prove the cancer evolution and hypotheses in different cancers including breast and brain tumors and also tracing cancer biomarkers. Her aims and focal interests during last 20 years included early detection through Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) in cancer journey and innovating modeling of the metastatic cancer. The final destination of her task is personalized cancer managements and drug innovation. Her interests include painting, writing and nutrigenomics. 

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