Breast Cancer Metastasis and Drug Resistance

1. Breast Cancer Statistics
Jiemin Ma, Ahmedin Jemal

2. Epidemiology of Breast Cancer in Women
Steven S. Coughlin, Yasmin Cypel

3. The Complexities of Racial Disparity in Breast Cancer
Joy Tang, Aamir Ahmad, Fazlul H. Sarkar

4. Major Signaling Pathways Involved in Breast Cancer
Saba Wasim Aziz, Moammir Hasan Aziz

5. Breast Cancer Heterogeneity in Primary and Metastatic Disease
Jodi M. Saunus, Amy McCart-Reed, Majid Momeny, Margaret Cummings, Sunil R. Lakhani

6. Understanding Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Ayca Gucalp, Tiffany A. Traina

7. The Biology of the Deadly Love Connection Between Obesity, Diabetes, and Breast Cancer
Bin Bao, Anthony Oraha, Aamir Ahmad, Shadan Ali, Yiwei Li, Asfar S. Azmi, Sanjeev Banerjee, Fazlul H. Sarkar

8. Progression of Early Breast Cancer to an Invasive Phenotype
Connor D. MacMillan, Ann F. Chambers, Alan B. Tuck

9. Pre-Clinical Modeling of Breast Cancer: Which Model to Choose?
Claire Nash, Valerie Speirs

10. Modeling Breast Cancer Progression in 4-D
Mansoureh Sameni, Stefanie R. Mullins, Kamiar Moin, Bonnie F. Sloane, Kingsley Osuala

11. Bone Metastasis of Breast Cancer
Takae M. Brewer, Richard L. Theriault, Naoto T. Ueno

12. Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Breaching of the Blood–Brain Barrier by Circulating Breast Cancer Cells
Hava Karsenty Avraham, Shuxian Jiang, Lili Wang, Yigong Fu, Shalom Avraham

13. Resistance to Anthracyclines and Taxanes in Breast Cancer
Derek Edwardson, Simon Chewchuk, Amadeo M. Parissenti

14. Understanding Tamoxifen Resistance of Breast Cancer Based on Integrative Bioinformatics Approaches
Y. Dai, L. Huang

15. Current Understanding of Drug Resistance Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets in HER2 Overexpressing Breast Cancers
Aamir Ahmad, Fazlul H. Sarkar

16. Platinum and Ruthenium Complexes for the Therapy of Breast Cancer Diseases
Bernhard Biersack, Rainer Schobert

17. Development of Notch Pathway Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy
Ingrid Espinoza, Lucio Miele

18. Systems Biology Approaches in Breast Cancer Studies
Zhiwei Wang, Shavali Shaik, Hiroyuki Inuzuka, Wenyi Wei

19. Epigenetic Factors in Breast Cancer Progression
Samriddhi Shukla, Syed Musthapa Meeran

20. Breast Cancer Stem Cells and miRNAs
Saurabh Singh

21. Breast Cancer Stem Cells: Responsible for Therapeutic Resistance and Relapse?
Hasan Korkaya, Fayaz Malik

22. MicroRNAs in Breast Cancer Research: Progress and Promise
Alia Ahmed, Ashhar S. Ali, Shadan Ali, Aamir Ahmad, Philip A. Philip, Fazlul H. Sarkar

Keywords: Biomedicine, Cancer Research, Drug Resistance