Hormonal Carcinogenesis IV [electronic resource] / edited by Jonathan J. Li, Sara A. Li, Antonio Llombart-Bosch.
Publisher: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005Description: XXVI, 546 p. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780387237619
- 616.994 23
- RC254-282

State of the Art Lectures -- Breast Cancer I: Progesterone Action -- Breast Cancer II: Mechanisms of Genomic Instability -- Early In-Situ Lesions: Breast and Prostate -- Promotion/Prevention of Hormone Cancers -- Prostate I: Androgen/Estrogen Action -- Prostate II: Androgen Receptor Dependence/Resistance -- Endometrium/Ovarian/Colon -- Communications -- Epidemiology/Human Derived Studies -- Breast Cancer -- Endometrial/Cervical Cancer -- Prostate Cancer -- Hormone Metabolism & Cell/Molecular Biology -- Breast Cancer -- Endometrial Cancer -- Ovary/Pituitary/Kidney/Liver Cancers -- Prostate Cancer.
Uniquely, Hormonal Carcinogenesis IV, integrates salient aspects of hormone-related cancers of interest to epidemiologists, basic researchers, and clinicians. The most recent advances in the major hormone-related cancers are presented by leaders of their specialty. The chapters in this volume deal with the causation, dependence, and resistance of endocrine-related cancers with particular emphasis on the most common neoplasms occuring in men and woman world wide, such as breast, prostate, uterine, and ovarian cancers.