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Metastasis / Dissemination

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Elizier L. Gorelik

    1. Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, USA

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Part of the book series: Cancer Growth and Progression (CAGP, volume 8)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Overview of Metastatic Spreading

    • H. E. Kaiser
    Pages 1-20

  3. Pattern of Metastasis

    • H. E. Kaiser
    Pages 21-31

  4. Metastasis to the Central Nervous System

    • Douglas W. Zochodne, J. Gregory Cairncross
    Pages 32-39

  5. Statistics of Esophageal Cancer Progression in Man

    • Clifton F. Mountain
    Pages 40-42

  6. Metastatic Disease to the Lung in the Human

    • M. Wayne Flye
    Pages 43-53

  7. Statistics of Lung Cancer Progression in Man

    • Clifton F. Mountain
    Pages 54-63

  8. Progression of Cancer of the Large Intestine

    • A. K. M. Shamsuddin
    Pages 64-67

  9. Liver Metastases: Experimental and Clinical Considerations

    • Joel Lundy
    Pages 68-71

  10. Metastasis to Bone in Mammals

    • Donald R. Bertolini, Gregory R. Mundy
    Pages 72-82

  11. Acceleration of Metastatic Growth after Surgical Excision of the Primary Tumor in the Experimental Animals

    • Elizier Gorelik
    Pages 83-90

  12. Metastasis of Epithelial Neoplasms: Progression of Neoplasms Deriving from Lining Membranes — A Review

    • H. E. Kaiser
    Pages 91-124

  13. Metastasis of Epithelial Neoplasms: Desmal Epithelia (Including Vasoformative Tissue), Epithelia of Synovial Origin

    • H. E. Kaiser
    Pages 125-129

  14. Metastases of Epithelial Neoplasms — Progression of Neoplasms Deriving from Glandular Structures: Exocrine Glands

    • H. E. Kaiser
    Pages 130-140

  15. Metastases of Epithelial Neoplasms: Progression of Neoplasms Deriving from Glandular Structures: Endocrine Glands — a Review

    • H. E. Kaiser, M. Dietel, E. Nawab
    Pages 141-169

  16. The Normal and Abnormal Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Cell

    • Kenneth L. Becker, Eric Nylen, Marie Cassidy, Ali Tabassian
    Pages 170-174

  17. Progression of Neoplasms Deriving from Pigmented Tissues

    • H. E. Kaiser
    Pages 175-218

  18. Neoplasms Metastasis Deriving from Supporting Tissues

    • H. E. Kaiser
    Pages 219-229

  19. Progression of Malignant Neoplasms Originating Directly in Connective Tissues as Such —Mesenchyme, Spinocellular, Gelatinous, Loose, and Fibrous Connective Tissues

    • H. E. Kaiser
    Pages 230-240

  20. Progression of Neoplasms Deriving from Muscle Tissues

    • H. E. Kaiser
    Pages 241-261
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About this book

This volume emphasizes metastasis/dissemination as im­ nective tissues, muscle, tumours of neuronal origins and portant processes in cancer growth and progression. teratomas. Previous volumes in this series have emphasized aspects of The broad array of neoplastic diseases, multiple target cancer progression, tumor invasion and tumor metastasis sites, and patterns of metastasis and dissemination underlie and the importance of these processes to the pathophysiol­ the importance of achieving crucial insights into particular ogy and morbidity of malignant disease. This volume builds neoplasms. An understanding of metastasis and dissemina­ on these earlier themes and emphasizes metastasis/disse­ tion in man remains an essential objective for the design of mination in man. Following a review of general patterns of new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for the therapy of metastatic spread in man, metastasis to, or progression of established metastatic disease and spread accompanying neoplasms in several organ systems are highlighted, includ­ site-specific tumor progression. ing: the central nervous system, esophageal cancer, the lung, the large intestine, the liver, bone, epithelial neoplasms, Series Editor Volume Editor endocrine cells, pigmented tissues, supporting tissues, con- Hans E. Kaiser Elizier L. Gorelik VII ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Inspiration and encouragement for this wide ranging project on cancer distribution and dissemination from a comparative biological and clinical point of view, was given by my late friend E. H. Krokowski.

Reviews

`All these articles make instructive reading, and so this volume, too, should find its place on the shelves of every oncologist. Content and outward presentation justify the price.'
Pathologic Research and Practice 187, 1991

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, USA

    Elizier L. Gorelik

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Metastasis / Dissemination

  • Editors: Elizier L. Gorelik

  • Series Title: Cancer Growth and Progression

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2534-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89838-997-5Published: 31 May 1989

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2534-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1871-3238

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 308

  • Topics: Oncology, Pathology

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