Origin of Cancers Clinical Perspectives and Implications of a Stem-Cell Theory of Cancer /

• Main Author: Tu, Shi-Ming. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Series: Cancer Treatment and Research, 154
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Human genetics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cancer Research.; Human Genetics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5968-3

The theory of a stem-cell origin of cancer is neither ground breaking nor earth shattering. Many prominent investigators have established the foundation for this concept and performed the vital experiments to support its validity and merit. The purpose of this book is to illustrate how this theory m...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Cancer myths
• History of cancer
• Origin of cancer
• Stem cells
• Stem cells and cancer
• Cancer stem cells
• Cancer niche
• Ontogeny and oncology
• Diagnosis and prognosis
• Cancer targets
• Heterogeneity of cancer
• Metastasis
• Cancer immunity
• Drug resistance
• Paradigm shifts
• Experimental proof
• Clinical implications
• Curing cancer
• Epilogue
• Glossary.