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Inflammation and Cancer

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Editors:
  1. Bharat B. Aggarwal

    1. Dept of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA

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  2. Bokyung Sung

    1. Dept of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA

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  3. Subash Chandra Gupta

    1. Dep Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA

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  • Comprehensive in scope
  • Gives a modern approach to the association of inflammation and cancer
  • With contributions by leading experts in the field
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 816)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Role of Inflammation in Lung Cancer

    • Mónica Gomes, Ana Luísa Teixeira, Ana Coelho, António Araújo, Rui Medeiros
    Pages 1-23

  3. The Role of Inflammation in Colon Cancer

    • Naveena B. Janakiram, Chinthalapally V. Rao
    Pages 25-52

  4. The Role of Inflammation in Inflammatory Breast Cancer

    • Tamer M. Fouad, Takahiro Kogawa, James M. Reuben, Naoto T. Ueno
    Pages 53-73

  5. The Role of Inflammation in Brain Cancer

    • James L. Sowers, Kenneth M. Johnson, Charles Conrad, Joel T. Patterson, Lawrence C. Sowers
    Pages 75-105

  6. The Role of Inflammation in Head and Neck Cancer

    • Marcelo Bonomi, Alexis Patsias, Marshall Posner, Andrew Sikora
    Pages 107-127

  7. The Role of Inflammation in Pancreatic Cancer

    • Simone Hausmann, Bo Kong, Christoph Michalski, Mert Erkan, Helmut Friess
    Pages 129-151

  8. The Role of Inflammation in Prostate Cancer

    • Karen S. Sfanos, Heidi A. Hempel, Angelo M. De Marzo
    Pages 153-181

  9. The Role of Inflammation in Bladder Cancer

    • Georgios Gakis
    Pages 183-196

  10. The Role of Inflammation in Kidney Cancer

    • Antonio Roma de Vivar Chevez, James Finke, Ronald Bukowski
    Pages 197-234

  11. The Role of Inflammation in Gastric Cancer

    • Kazım Şenol, Murat Bulut Özkan, Selahattin Vural, Mesut Tez
    Pages 235-257

  12. The Role of Inflammation in Sarcoma

    • Jürgen Radons
    Pages 259-313

  13. The Role of Inflammation in Lymphoma

    • Antonino Carbone, Claudio Tripodo, Carmelo Carlo-Stella, Armando Santoro, Annunziata Gloghini
    Pages 315-333

  14. The Role of Inflammation in Leukaemia

    • Janusz Krawczyk, Michael O’Dwyer, Ronan Swords, Ciara Freeman, Francis J Giles
    Pages 335-360

  15. The Role of Inflammatory Cells in Angiogenesis in Multiple Myeloma

    • Domenico Ribatti, Angelo Vacca
    Pages 361-376

  16. The Role of Inflammation in Cervical Cancer

    • S. Deivendran, K Hezlin Marzook, M. Radhakrishna Pillai
    Pages 377-399

  17. The Inflammation and Liver Cancer

    • Anupam Bishayee
    Pages 401-435

  18. The Role of Inflammation in Skin Cancer

    • Girish B. Maru, Khushboo Gandhi, Asha Ramchandani, Gaurav Kumar
    Pages 437-469

  19. Erratum to: The Role of Inflammation in Leukaemia

    • Janusz Krawczyk, Michael O’Dwyer, Ronan Swords, Ciara Freeman, Francis J Giles
    Pages E1-E1

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 471-490
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About this book

This volume examines in detail the role of chronic inflammatory processes in the development of several types of cancer. Leading experts describe the latest results of molecular and cellular research on infection, cancer-related inflammation and tumorigenesis. Further, the clinical significance of these findings in preventing cancer progression and approaches to treating the diseases are discussed. Individual chapters cover cancer of the lung, colon, breast, brain, head and neck, pancreas, prostate, bladder, kidney, liver, cervix and skin as well as gastric cancer, sarcoma, lymphoma, leukemia and multiple myeloma.

Reviews

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“The aim of this book is to examine the role of inflammation in cancer from the perspective of molecular biology, based on recent research. … The audience includes established researchers, professors, healthcare professionals, and students in the medical and scientific community. … It provides readers with important new information on cutting-edge biomedical research aimed at improving our understanding of the interaction of inflammation and cancer.” (Yuan Yuan, Doody’s Book Reviews, October, 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA

    Bharat B. Aggarwal, Bokyung Sung

  • Dep Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA

    Subash Chandra Gupta

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Inflammation and Cancer

  • Editors: Bharat B. Aggarwal, Bokyung Sung, Subash Chandra Gupta

  • Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0837-8

  • Publisher: Springer Basel

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-0836-1Published: 23 May 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-0837-8Published: 12 May 2014

  • Series ISSN: 0065-2598

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 490

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cancer Research, Immunology, Oncology

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