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Horizons in cancer research. Volume 50 /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,
2012.
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| Colección: | Horizons in cancer research ;
v. 50. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- HORIZONS IN CANCER RESEARCH: VOLUME 50; HORIZONS IN CANCER RESEARCH: VOLUME 50; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1: GALLBLADDER CANCER: ETIOLOGY, PATHOGENESIS AND TREATMENT; INTRODUCTION; Epidemiology; Pathogenesis, Etiology and Risk Factors; MANAGEMENT; GALLBLADDER CANCER SUSPECTEDPRE-OPERATIVELY; ADDITIONAL SURGICAL CONSIDERATIONS; Diagnostic Laparoscopy; Lymph Node Dissection; Bile Duct Resection; UNSUSPECTED GALLBALDDER CANCER DISCOVERED INTRAOPERATIVELY; INCIDENTAL GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA FOUND POST-OPERATIVELY ON HISTOLOGICAL SECTIONING.
- ADVANCED UNRESECTABLE GALLBLADDER CARCINOMACONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 2: AN OVERVIEW OF DOCETAXEL APPLICATIONS AND EFFECTS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; 1. Historic Overview; 2. Chemical Composition and Mechanisms of Action; 2.1. Chemical Composition; 2.2. Mechanisms of Action; 3. Therapeutic Applications and Benefits; 4. Benefits of Docetaxel Association with OtherAnticancer Drugs; Hormonal Modulators; Other Steroids; Immunotherapy; Antiangiogenic agents; DNA interference molecules; Microtubule Network Disrupters; 5. Adverse Side Effects; 6. Development of Resistance to Docetaxel.
- 7. Future DirectionsCONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 3: METASTATIC CANCER PAIN MANAGEMENT TO THE BONE, SPINE AND LIVER: CURRENT ISSUES, INNOVATIVE TREATMENTS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; PREVALENCE AND CAUSES OF PAININ ADVANCED CANCER; MEASURING PAIN INTENSITY; PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE PAIN CONTROL; UNDER-MEDICATION OF PAINFUL BONE METASTASES; A MEASUREMENT TOOL: THE PAIN MANAGEMENT INDEX; Barriers of the Pain Management Index; INNOVATIONS IN RADIATION MANAGEMENTOF CANCER RELATED PAIN; Innovations in Radiotherapy for Bone and Spine Pain; Palliative Radiotherapy for Liver Pain.
- FUTURE DIRECTIONSCONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 4: DOCETAXEL IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. MAIN MECHANISMS OF TAXANE ACTION; 3. SAFETY PROFILE; 4. DOCETAXEL MONOTHERAPY; 5. INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY; 6. CONCOMITANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; 7. INTRA-ARTERIAL CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; 8. SECOND-LINE CHEMOTHERAPY IN RECURRENTOR METASTATIC DISEASE; 9. TREATMENT FOR LUNG METASTASIS FROM HNSCC:A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF DOCETAXELAND NEDAPLATIN [35]; 9.1. Patients and Methods; 9.2. Results; Patient Characteristics; Treatment for Lung Metastasis.
- Survival Associated with Lung MetastasisTreatment Efficacy and Toxicity of Docetaxel-Based Chemotherapy; 10. FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR MOLECULAR TARGETINGTHERAPIES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 5: THE EFFECTS OF CYTOSKELETAL STRUCTURE CHANGES INDUCED BY DOCETAXEL ON GENE EXPRESSIONS: A VIEW FROM DIFFERENT POINTS OF DOCETAXEL FUNCTIONS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; DOCETAXEL AS AN ANTICANCER CHEMOTHERAPY DRUG; HEPATOCYTE FOR THE TOXICITY TESTING OF DRUG CANDIDATE CHEMICALS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CULTURE OF HEPG2 CELLS; CHANGES OF DRUG METABOLISM-RELATING GENEEXPRESSIONS IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL CULTURE.