Overview
- Highlights connections between infection, inflammation and various cancers
- Offers insights into the progress of immune therapy and stem cell research in cancer
- Discusses emerging roles of the microbiome in pathogenesis of cancers and outcome of therapy
Part of the book series: Physiology in Health and Disease (PIHD)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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About this book
This book offers a summary and discussion of the advances of inflammation and infection in various cancers. The authors cover the classically known virus infections in cancer, novel roles of other pathogens (e.g. bacteria and fungi), as well as biomarkers for diagnosis and therapy. Further, the chapters highlight the progress of immune therapy, stem cells and the role of the microbiome in the pathophysiology of cancers.
Readers will gain insights into complex microbial communities, that inhabit most external human surfaces and play a key role in health and disease. Perturbations of host-microbe interactions often lead to altered host responses that can promote cancer development. Thus, this book highlights emerging roles of the microbiome in pathogenesis of cancers and outcome of therapy. The focus is on mechanistic concepts that underlie the complex relationships between host and microbes. Approaches that can inhibit infection, suppress chronic inflammation and reverse the dysbiosis are discussed, as a means for restoring the balance between host and microbes.This comprehensive work will be beneficial to researchers and students interested in infectious diseases, microbiome, and cancer as well as clinicians and general physiologists.Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Sun is a believer of scientific art and artistic science. She enjoys writing her science papers in English and poems in Chinese. She teaches her medical fellows biomedical knowledge and also the way to translate the Chinese poems. In addition to her research papers and books, her poetry collection《让时间停留在这一刻 》“Let time stay still at this moment”, is published in 2018 by the Chinese Literature and History Press (中国文史出版社).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inflammation, Infection, and Microbiome in Cancers
Book Subtitle: Evidence, Mechanisms, and Implications
Editors: Jun Sun
Series Title: Physiology in Health and Disease
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67951-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The American Physiological Society 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67950-7Published: 21 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67953-8Published: 22 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67951-4Published: 20 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2625-252X
Series E-ISSN: 2625-2538
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 509
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cancer Research, Medical Microbiology, Molecular Medicine, Human Physiology, Immunology