Editors:
- Summarize the unique pathobiology of head and neck cancers
- Addresses signaling pathways and individual proteins that are important in causing or supporting the aggressive nature of head and neck cancer
- Covers high throughput studies addressing chromosomal, mutational, and transcriptional changes that characterize SCCHN
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Current Cancer Research (CUCR)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Developmental Therapeutics Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA
Barbara Burtness, Erica A. Golemis
About the editors
Barbara Burtness, M.D. is Associate Director for Clinical Research at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. She is also a co-leader of the Keystone Program in Head and Neck Cancer. As Chair of the Head and Neck Committee in the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group and a member of the NCI Head and Neck Steering Committee, she helps shape the national agenda for research on all stages of head and neck cancer.
Erica Golemis, Ph.D. is the Deputy Chief Scientific Officer at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. She is also the Co-Leader of Developmental Therapeutics and Co-Leader of the Head and Neck Cancer Keystone at Fox Chase. Her research seeks to define the changes in cell signaling that occur as tumors spread by metastasis and develop resistance to drugs, with the ultimate goal of inhibiting these processes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Molecular Determinants of Head and Neck Cancer
Editors: Barbara Burtness, Erica A. Golemis
Series Title: Current Cancer Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8815-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4489-7Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-8815-6Published: 08 April 2014
Series ISSN: 2199-2584
Series E-ISSN: 2199-2592
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 362
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cancer Research, Oncology, Protein Science