Overview
- First the reader will learn about maintaining homeostasis, then about loss of health by upsetting the biological balance
- The consequence of unbalanced cell growth helps to understand cell death and tumor formation
- Readers will get an idea how primary tumors cells confined to restricted areas in the body can be effectively treated without cancerous consequences
- Old (hematogen) and new theories (lymphatic) will help the understanding of metastatic spread of tumors
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Homeostasis. The health of an organism is influenced by external and internal changes that may lead to the loss of homeostasis. Under healthy conditions organisms compensate these changes. If compensation fails disease ensues. Attention will be paid to lifestyle, environmental changes, genetic makeup and health system. It will be answered how lifestyle, environment, genetic makeup and social conditions help to maintain or upset the biological balance and lead to cancer.
Tumor formation. To understand this process the transfer of intracellular and the pathways of extracellular information (signal transduction) will be reviewed briefly. Loss of cellular balance may lead to cell death (.e.g. apoptosis) or to rapid cell growth of cells leading to tumor formation.
Metastasis. Animal tumor models serve to understand the spread of the primary tumor cells to distant locations of the organism. Different types of tumors and metastases will be reviewed.​
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Homeostasis - Tumor - Metastasis
Authors: Gaspar Banfalvi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7335-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7334-9Published: 29 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0248-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7335-6Published: 16 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 279
Number of Illustrations: 55 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cancer Research, Cell Biology, Biomedicine general, Higher Education, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Environmental Health