The biological basis of cancer /
Robert G. McKinnell [and others].
- Second edition.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 475 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
The pathology of cancer / G. Barry Pierce and Ivan Damjanov -- Invasion and metastasis / Robert G. McKinnell -- Carcinogenesis / Alan O. Perantoni -- Genetics and heredity / Robert G. McKinnell -- Cancer-associated genes / Alan O. Perantoni -- Cancer in nonhuman organisms / Robert G. McKinnell -- Epidemiology / Robert G. McKinnell -- Lifestyle: is there anything more important? / Robert G. McKinnell -- The stem cell basis of cancer treatment: concepts and clinical outcomes / Ralph E. Parchment -- Oncology: the difficult task of eradicating caricatures of normal tissue renewal in the human patient / Ralph E. Parchment.
This is a revised and updated edition of a text used in undergraduate courses on cancer biology. It covers everything from the molecular basis of cancer to clinical aspects of the subject, and has a lengthy bibliography designed to assist newcomers with the cancer literature. An introduction acquaints students with the biological principles of cancer and the human dimensions of the disease by considering genuine cases of cancer in fictionalized letters. Other chapters discuss cancer pathology, metastasis, carcinogenesis, genetics, oncogenes and tumor suppressors, epidemiology, and the biological basis of cancer treatment. Also included are an appendix with descriptions of common forms of cancer, a glossary of cancer-related terms and colour plates to illustrate the pathology of many of the types of cancer discussed in the text. Upper-division undergraduates with a background in freshman biology and chemistry, as well as beginning graduate students will find this a valuable text.