| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 490 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; volume 816 |
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Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; 816.
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| Contents |
The role of inflammation in lung cancer / Mónica Gomes, Ana Luísa Teixeira, Ana Coelho, António Araújo and Rui Medeiros -- The role of inflammation in colon cancer / Naveena B. Janakiram and Chinthalapally V. Rao -- The role of inflammation in inflammatory breast cancer / Tamer M. Fouad, Takahiro Kogawa, James M. Reuben and Naoto T. Ueno -- The role of inflammation in brain cancer / James L. Sowers, Kenneth M. Johnson, Charles Conrad, Joel T. Patterson and Lawrence C. Sowers -- The role of inflammation in head and neck cancer / Marcelo Bonomi, Alexis Patsias, Marshall Posner and Andrew Sikora -- The role of inflammation in pancreatic cancer / Simone Hausmann, Bo Kong, Christoph Michalski, Mert Erkan and Helmut Friess -- The role of inflammation in prostate cancer / Karen S. Sfanos, Heidi A. Hempel and Angelo M. De Marzo -- The role of inflammation in bladder cancer / Georgios Gakis -- The role of inflammation in kidney cancer / Antonio Roma De Vivar Chevez, James Finke and Ronald Bukowski -- The role of inflammation in gastric cancer / Kazım Şenol, Murat Bulut Özkan, Selahattin Vural and Mesut Tez -- The role of inflammation in sarcoma / Jürgen Radons -- The role of inflammation in lymphoma / Antonino Carbone, Claudio Tripodo, Carmelo Carlo-Stella, Armando Santoro and Annunziata Gloghini -- The role of inflammation in leukaemia / Janusz Krawczyk, Michael O'Dwyer, Ronan Swords, Ciara Freeman and Francis J Giles -- The role of inflammatory cells in angiogenesis in multiple myeloma / Domenico Ribatti and Angelo Vacca -- The role of inflammation in cervical cancer / S. Deivendran, K. Hezlin Marzook and M. Radhakrishna Pillai -- The role of inflammation in liver cancer / Anupam Bishayee -- The role of inflammation in skin cancer / Girish B. Maru, Khushboo Gandhi, Asha Ramchandani and Gaurav Kumar |
| Summary |
This volume examines in detail the role of chronic inflammatory processes in the development of several types of cancer. Leading experts describe the latest results of molecular and cellular research on infection, cancer-related inflammation, and tumorigenesis. Further, the clinical significance of these findings in preventing cancer progression and approaches to treating the diseases are discussed. Individual chapters cover cancer of the lung, colon, breast, brain, head and neck, pancreas, prostate, bladder, kidney, liver, cervix, and skin as well as gastric cancer, sarcoma, lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma |
| Analysis |
biomedische wetenschappen |
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biomedicine |
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immunologie |
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immunology |
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neoplasms |
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oncologie |
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oncology |
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Medicine (General) |
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Geneeskunde (algemeen) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Carcinogenesis.
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Inflammation.
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Cancer -- Immunological aspects.
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Inflammation -- Mediators.
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Carcinogenesis
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Inflammation
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Inflammation Mediators
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Cancer -- Immunological aspects
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Carcinogenesis
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Inflammation
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Inflammation -- Mediators
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Immunology.
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Oncology.
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Health and Wellbeing.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Aggarwal, Bharat B., 1950- editor.
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Sung, Bokyung, editor
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Gupta, Subash Chandra, editor
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| ISBN |
9783034808378 |
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3034808372 |
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