The Molecular Basis of Human Cancer

1. Cancer Epidemiology: Incidence and Etiology of Human Neoplasms
William B. Coleman, Gregory J. Tsongalis

2. Essential Concepts and Techniques in Molecular Biology
Claudine L. Lefferts, Joel A. Lefferts

3. Cancer Genomics
Jonathan R. Pollack

4. Cancer Cytogenetics
Thomas Ried, Kerstin Heselmeyer-Haddad, Jordi Camps, Timo Gaiser

5. Epigenetic Basis of Human Cancer
Thomas Mikeska, Alexander Dobrovic

6. Cancer Proteomics
Jeffrey M. Lake, Timothy D. Veenstra

7. An Overview of Cancer Genes
Ashley G. Rivenbark

8. Oncogenes and the Initiation and Maintenance of Tumorigenesis
Dean W. Felsher, Constadina Arvanitis, Pavan Bendapudi, Pavan Bachireddy

9. Positive Mediators of Cell Proliferation in Neoplasia: Growth Factors and Receptors
Luca Grumolato, Stuart Aaronson

10. Senescence, Apoptosis, and Cancer
Manjari Dimri, Goberdhan P. Dimri

11. Novel Cancer Therapies Targeting Angiogenesis
Monte S. Willis, Nancy Klauber-DeMore

12. Beyond the Primary Tumor: Progression, Invasion, and Metastasis
Danny R. Welch, Douglas R. Hurst

13. Simple Sequence Mutations
Christophe Béroud

14. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Cancer Susceptibility
Richard A. Hubner, Richard S. Houlston

15. Chromosomes and Chromosomal Instability in Human Cancer
Kazuma Ohyashiki, Masahiko Kuroda, Junko H. Ohyashiki

16. Epigenetic Mechanisms in Cancer Development
José Ignacio Martín-Subero, Manel Esteller

17. MicroRNAs and Cancer
Phong Trang, Joanne B. Weidhaas, Frank J. Slack

18. Erionite and Asbestos in the Pathogenesis of Human Malignant Mesotheliomas
Mutlay Sayan, Brooke T. Mossman

19. Viral Mechanisms in Human Carcinogenesis
Paul F. Lambert

20. Hormonal Carcinogenesis: The Role of Estrogens
William A. Ricke, Karin Williams, Jalissa Wynder, Ganesh Palapattu, Yuzhuo Wang, Gerald R. Cunha

21. Sporadic Cancers
Clemens B. Tempfer, Marc-André Reymond

22. Hereditary Cancer
Zoran Gatalica, Anatole Ghazalpour, Stan L. Lilleberg, Jeffrey Swensen, Henry T. Lynch

23. Retinoblastoma: Clinical and Molecular Perspectives
J. William Harbour

24. Xeroderma Pigmentosum and the DNA Damage Response to Ultraviolet Light
James E. Cleaver

25. Hereditary Colorectal Cancer
Sonia S. Kupfer, Nathan A. Ellis

26. Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Michael P. Lux, Mayada R. Bani, Peter A. Fasching, Matthias W. Beckmann

27. The Molecular Basis of Prostate Carcinogenesis
Smitha Dutt, Allen C. Gao

28. Molecular Basis of Lung Carcinogenesis
Kwun M. Fong, Jill E. Larsen, Casey Wright, Krishna Sriram, Morgan Davidson, Marissa Daniels, Yoshitaka Sekido, Rayleen V. Bowman, Ian A. Yang, John D. Minna

29. Molecular Basis of Skin Carcinogenesis
Alessia Pacifico, Giovanni Leone, Honnavara N. Ananthaswamy

30. Molecular Biology of Leukemias
L. Jeffrey Medeiros, Sergej N. Konoplev

31. Molecular Mechanisms in Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
John Hunt, Yuri Fedoriw, William N. Rezuke

32. The Molecular Pathology of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Laura J. Tafe

33. Ovarian Cancer
Amy D. Brockmeyer, Louis Dubeau

34. Molecular Pathology of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors
José Luis Ordóñez, Daniel Osuna, Juan Madoz-Gúrpide, Enrique Álava

35. Molecular Biology of Human Brain Tumors
Daniel Coluccia, Adrienne Weeks, Javier Fandino, Christian Schneider, Christian Smith, James T. Rutka

36. Cancer Drug Discovery and Anticancer Drug Development
James Turkson

37. Biological Principles and Clinical Application of EGFR Inhibitors in Cancer
Zhuo (Georgia) Chen, Suresh Ramalingam, Dong M. Shin

38. Targeting Oncoproteins for Molecular Cancer Therapy
Joshua E. Allen, Wafik S. El-Deiry

39. Therapeutic Agents That Inhibit Angiogenesis
Francesco Torino, Roberta Sarmiento, Raffaelle Longo, Giampietro Gasparini

40. Small Molecule Inhibitors
Xin Chen, Jian Jin

41. Molecular Detection and Diagnosis of Cancer
Christos Patriotis, Padma Maruvada, Sudhir Srivastava

42. Gene Therapy in the Treatment of Human Cancer
Anand C. Annan, Paul B. Fisher, Paul Dent, Gene P. Siegal, David T. Curiel

43. Personalized Medicine for the Treatment of Human Cancer
Scott A. Turner, Gregory J. Tsongalis

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