Cancer Prevention

This volume contains the main proceedings of the fourth international conference on "Cancer Prevention 2006," which was held during February 16-18, 2006, in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Written by international experts in the field, the book comprises a comprehensive update on the most recent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Senn, H.-J (Editor ), Kapp, U. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Colección:Recent Results in Cancer Research, 174
Temas:
Oncology.
Cancer.
Medical genetics.
Medicine > Research.
Biology > Research.
Cancer Biology.
Medical Genetics.
Biomedical Research.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
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Sumario:This volume contains the main proceedings of the fourth international conference on "Cancer Prevention 2006," which was held during February 16-18, 2006, in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Written by international experts in the field, the book comprises a comprehensive update on the most recent developments in the upsurging fields of molecular biology and cancer genetics and their interactions with clinical epidemiology and cancer prevention at various levels: genetic/biologic predisposition and definition of high-risk groups; preclinical models and tumor prevention; prospects of surrogate endpoints and biomarkers; progress in imaging and detection of neoplastic precursor lesions; problems with Cox-2 inhibitors in tumor chemoprevention; primary and secondary prevention of gynecological, breast, gastrointestinal and genitourinary cancers. In addition, the future prospects of cancer chemoprevention are discussed.
Descripción Física:XIV, 250 p. 60 illus., 24 illus. in color. online resource.
ISBN:9783540376965
ISSN:2197-6767 ;

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