Impact of Genetic Targets on Cancer Therapy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: El-Deiry, Wafik S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 779
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Human genetics.; Microbiology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Human Genetics.; Medical Microbiology.; Biomedicine general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6176-0

The�volume provides a forum for original peer-reviewed short communications, full-length research and review articles on new research findings and developments�on the topic of genetic targets on�cancer therapies. As the field is highly important it requires co-operation between research communities...

Table of Contents:

• Novel antineoplastics targeting genetic changes in colorectal cancer
• Update on Clinical Trials: Genetic Targets in Breast Cancer
• Impact of Genetic Targets on Cancer Therapy in Esophagogastric Cancer
• Impact of Genetic Targets on Cancer Therapy: Liver Cancer
• Targeting the molecular phenotype of pancreatic cancer toward the goal of patient-tailored therapy
• Impact of genetic markers on treatment of Non-small cell lung cancer
• Impact of Genetic Targets on Therapy in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
• Tyrosine Kinase Targeted Treatment of Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia and Other Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
• Targeted Therapy of Multiple Myeloma
• Current and Future Trials of Targeted Therapies in Cutaneous Melanoma
• Current Approaches to Epigenetic therapy for the treatment of Mantle Cell Lymphoma
• Impact of Genetic Targets on Primary Brain Tumor Therapy: Whats Ready for Prime Time?
• Rational therapy for renal cell carcinoma based on its genetic targets
• Molecular and Genetic Markers of Follicular-Cell Thyroid Cancer: Etiology and Diagnostic and Therapeutic Opportunities
• Genetic Targets in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• Emerging molecular therapies for the treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• Impact of Genetic Targets on Prostate Cancer Therapy
• Small-Cell Lung Cancer: An Update on Targeted Therapies
• Impact of Genetic Targets on Cancer Therapy in Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
• Index.