Hormone Receptors in Breast Cancer

This book provides an up-to-date resource of the role of hormone receptors in breast cancer written in depth for both the basic molecular academic researcher and translational scientist. Advances in basic science of molecular endocrinology have undoubtedly been translated into clinical practice, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Fuqua, Suzanne A. W. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
Series:Cancer Treatment and Research, 147
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09463-2
Table of Contents:
  • Molecular Endocrinology of Estrogen and Progesterone Receptors: Clinical Significance
  • The Role ER<U+00df> in Clinical Breast Cancer
  • Progesterone Receptors
  • Extra-nuclear Action of Estrogen Receptors
  • Coactivators and Corepressors
  • Estrogen Receptors in Minority Populations
  • Hormonally Responsive Cell Lines
  • Cross-talk Between BRCA1 and Hormone Receptors
  • Metastasis of Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer
  • Endocrine Therapy: Sequencing of SERMs and Aromatase Inhibitors
  • BioMarkers in the ATAC Trial
  • Hormone Resistance
  • Cross-talk Between Growth Factor Pathways, Signal Transduction Inhibitors, and Hormone Receptors
  • Strategies of Hormonal Prevention
  • The Hormone-Responsive Phenotype as Defined by Molecular Expression Profiling
  • Index.