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Title Ovarian cancer / M. Sharon Stack, David A. Fishman, editors
Edition 2nd ed
Published New York : Springer, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 408 pages) : illustrations
Series CTAR ; v. 149
C.T.A.R. 0927-3042 ; 149
Cancer treatment and research ; v. 149
Contents Chemoprevention of ovarian cancer -- Staging and surgical treatment -- Novel therapeutic targets -- Biomarker targets and novel therapeutics -- Tumor suppressor genes -- Epigenetics and ovarian cancer -- Aberrant epithelial differentiation in ovarian cancer -- The human kallikrein gene family: new biomarkers for ovarian cancer -- Soluble epidermal growth factor receptor: a biomarker of epithelial ovarian cancer -- Activated epidermal growth factor receptor in ovarian cancer -- Ras-superfamily GTP-ases in ovarian cancer -- Lipid generation and signaling in ovarian cancer -- Lysophosphatidic acid and invasion -- Cell adhesion in ovarian cancer -- Microenvironmental regulation of ovarian cancer metastasis -- Organotypic models of metastasis: a three-dimensional culture mimicking the human peritoneum and omentum for the study of the early steps of ovarian cancer metastasis -- Animal models of ovarian cancer
Summary Ovarian carcinoma continues to be responsible for more deaths than all other gynecologic malignancies combined, due to a continued inability to achieve detection of early (rather than advanced) stage disease and the lack of effective tumor-specific therapeutics. This title includes various advances in ovarian cancer detection and treatment
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Ovaries -- Cancer
Ovarian Neoplasms -- therapy
Ovarian Neoplasms
MEDICAL -- Oncology.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
Ovaries -- Cancer
Form Electronic book
Author Stack, M. Sharon, 1959-
Fishman, David A., 1959-
ISBN 9780387980942
0387980946