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Emerging Therapeutic Targets in Ovarian Cancer

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  • Discusses the progress in linking the biology of ovarian cancer with novel targets and innovative therapies entering clinical trials.

  • Provides an up-to-date perspective on successful therapeutic developments as a partnership between laboratory-based and clinical-based research scientists.

  • Identifies those areas of translational research which we believe have shown the most promise, or are likely to do so, in the treatment of ovarian cancer.

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Systemic Therapy for Ovarian Cancer, Current Treatment, Recent Advances, and Unmet Needs

    • Susana Banerjee, Michael A. Bookman, Martin Gore
    Pages 1-33
  3. Discovery of Novel Targets

    • John Farley, Michael J. Birrer
    Pages 35-50
  4. Novel Anti-angiogenic Therapies in Ovarian Cancer

    • Jurjees Hasan, Gordon Jayson
    Pages 51-72
  5. Targeting the AKT Pathway in Ovarian Cancer

    • Euan A. Stronach, Azadeh Cheraghchi-Bashi, Michelle Chen, Hani Gabra
    Pages 73-94
  6. Tumour-Specific Synthetic Lethality: Targeting BRCA Dysfunction in Ovarian Cancer

    • Timothy A. Yap, Stan H. Kaye, Alan Ashworth, Andrew Tutt
    Pages 109-132
  7. Targeting Inflammatory Pathways in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

    • Jermaine Coward, Frances Balkwill
    Pages 133-164
  8. Epigenetic Therapies

    • Robert Brown, Nadine Chapman-Rothe, Ros Glasspool
    Pages 189-202
  9. Ovarian Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy

    • Sadaf Ghaem-Maghami, Martin Gore
    Pages 203-221
  10. Ovarian Cancer Progenitor/Stem Cells: Therapeutic Potential

    • Susan K. Murphy, Andrew Berchuck
    Pages 223-244
  11. New Insights into Tubulin Binders

    • Carles Escriu, James D. Brenton
    Pages 259-278
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 279-291

About this book



Editors and Affiliations

  • Royal Marsden Hospital, Drug Development Unit, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom

    Stan Kaye

  • , Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

    Robert Brown

  • , Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

    Hani Gabra

  • , Department of Medicine, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom

    Martin Gore

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Emerging Therapeutic Targets in Ovarian Cancer

  • Editors: Stan Kaye, Robert Brown, Hani Gabra, Martin Gore

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7216-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-7215-6Published: 24 November 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8233-9Published: 27 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-7216-3Published: 23 November 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 291

  • Topics: Cancer Research, Pharmacology/Toxicology

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