Ovarian Cancer Second Edition /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stack, M. Sharon. (Editor), Fishman, David A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Edition: 2.
• Series: Cancer Treatment and Research, 149
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Human genetics.; Gynecology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cancer Research.; Human Genetics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-98094-2

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. Ovarian carcinogenesis, invasion, and...

Table of 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
• Soluble Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (sEGFR)
• Activated Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor in Ovarian Cancer
• Ras-Superfamily GTP-ases in Ovarian Cancer
• Lipid Generation and Signaling in Ovarian Cancer
• LPA and Invasion
• Cell Adhesion in Ovarian Cancer
• Microenvironmental Regulation of Ovarian Cancer Metastasis
• Organotypic Models of Metastasis
• Animal Models of Ovarian Cancer
• Index.