Male Reproductive Cancers (eBook, PDF)

Epidemiology, Pathology and Genetics
Redaktion: Foulkes, William D.; Cooney, Kathleen A.

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Produktbeschreibung

Male Reproductive Cancers: Epidemiology, Pathology and Genetics presents a thoughtful, comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the etiology of the prostate gland and the testes, summarizing decades of research in the three most important etiological disciplines: epidemiology, pathology and genetics.

This book is comprised of four distinct sections: Epidemiology, Pathology, Molecular Genetics, and Inherited Susceptibility, with each section divided into chapters categorized by disease. Section A reviews the epidemiology of prostate and testicular cancer, with an emphasis on clinical and environmental factors associated with these diseases. Section B begins by describing various pathological features of prostate cancer, followed by descriptions of the wide variety of testicular cancers as well as a brief section on the use of tumor markers for monitoring disease. Section C focuses on somatic genetic changes in prostate and testicular cancers using new technologies such as comparative genomic hybridization and gene expression profiling. Section D concentrates on the progress made toward understanding inherited susceptibility to prostate cancer and to testicular cancer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441904492
• Artikelnr.: 37357973

Inhaltsangabe

Epidemiology.- The Epidemiology of Prostate Cancer.- The Epidemiology of Testicular Cancer.- Pathology.- Prostate Cancer: A Pathological Perspective.- Testicular Tumor Pathology.- Molecular Genetics.- Somatic Molecular Genetics of Prostate Cancer.- Molecular Genetics of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor.- Inherited Susceptibility.- Identification of Genetic Risk Factors for Prostate Cancer: Analytic Approaches Using Hereditary Prostate Cancer Families.- The Identification of Rare and Common Variants Which Predispose to Prostate Cancer.- Prostate Cancer in Special Populations.- Inherited Susceptibility of Aggressive Prostate Cancer.- Susceptibility Alleles for Testicular Germ Cell Tumor.