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An Innovative Approach to Understanding and Treating Cancer: Targeting pH

From Etiopathogenesis to New Therapeutic Avenues

  • 1st Edition - January 16, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Tomas Koltai, Stephan J. Reshkin, Salvador Harguindey
  • Language: English

An Innovative Approach to Studying and Treating Cancer: Targeting pH describes one of the few characteristics of cancer that is not shared by normal tissues: the reversal or invers… Read more

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Description

An Innovative Approach to Studying and Treating Cancer: Targeting pH describes one of the few characteristics of cancer that is not shared by normal tissues: the reversal or inversion of the pH gradient when intracellular pH becomes alkaline and extracellular pH becomes acid. This is now recognized as one of the most selective and differential hallmarks of all cancer cells and tissues, being the opposite of the condition found in normal tissues and a potential target in order to achieve either a stable disease or even regression with no toxicity.

The book discusses topics such as lactic acid and its transport system in the pH paradigm, mechanisms to decrease extra cellular pH and increase intracellular pH, NHE-1 activity in cancer, carbonic anhydrases, vacuolar ATPase proton pump, and the sodium-bicarbonate cotransporter system. Additionally, it discusses complementary pharmacological interventions, cellular acidification and extracellular alkalinization as a new and integral approach to cancer treatment.

Key features

  • Analyzes the mechanisms that lead to the inversion of pH gradient in cancer tissues
  • Summarizes almost 100 years of research on pH inversion in cancer in one single source, discussing the most relevant and updated researches in the field
  • Proposes new efficient treatments against cancer using pH inversion mechanisms, either with new drugs like proton transport inhibitors and proton pump inhibitors (PTIs and PPIs) or with repurposed drugs

Readership

Oncologists; cancer researchers; graduate students; molecular biologists

Table of contents

PART 1: Metabolism and pH physiopathology of cancer1. Introduction2. Cancer metabolism3. The pH alterations in cancer: causes and consequences4. Lactic acid and its transport system5. The sodium hydrogen exchanger6. The voltage gated sodium channels7. Carbonic anhydrases8. Proton pumps9. The sodium/bicarbonate co-transporter10. Aquaporins11. Invadopodia and the migration/invasion process12. The Sp1 transcription factor

PART 1: Therapeutics13. Pharmacological interventions – Part I14. Pharmacological interventions – Part II15. Pharmacological interventions – Part III16. Pharmacological interventions – Part IV17. Therapeutics: the scheme18. Therapeutics: ancillary treatments19. Preventing metastasis20. Proton inhibitors in pets’ cancer21. pH-related nanoparticles in cancer treatment22. Conclusions and future perspectives

Review quotes

"This book is a useful and thought-provoking review of some unique aspects of cancer growth and metabolism. It is easy to follow and has many associated illustrations, tables, and text structures that aid in the review. It provides a good foundation to further investigate pH effects on malignancy, though the text would benefit from further updates and revision as these rapidly growing research fields progress."—Doody

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 16, 2020
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Tomas Koltai

Tomas Koltai is Board Certified Specialist in Medical Oncology (1985), PhD in Chemistry (1997) and Master’s in Sciences in Molecular Oncology, University of Buenos Aires (2011). He has vast experience on cancer treatment at several positions: staff oncologist, Sanatorio Mater Dei, Argentina (1985-1990); Head of Oncology, Central Hospital of the Centro Gallego de Buenos Aires (1990-2000) and Medical Director, at the same institution (2000-2002); Head of the Department of Chemotherapy, National Social Services for Retirees, Argentina (2002-2014); Head of the Department of Oncology, Social Services of the National Food Workers Union, Argentina (2010-2014) and Medical Director at the same institution (2014-2016). He has authored several seminal publications on cancer and created the new “triple-edged cancer treatment”.
Affiliations and expertise
Former Medical Director, Hospital del Centro Gallego de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Stephan J. Reshkin

Stephan Reshkin, PhD, is molecular biologist and Associate Professor at the University of Bari (Italy). Dr. Reshkin has published 108 scientific papers, several book chapters and co-authored An Innovative Approach to Understanding and Treating Cancer: Targeting pH (Elsevier, 2020). His main research interests are cancer cell and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari, Italy

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Salvador Harguindey

Specialty in Medical Endocrinology, Royal Infirmary Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (1974-1977) and Department of Endocrinology, Eugene Taldmage Memorial Hospital, USA (1977-1981). Specialty in Medical Oncology, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, USA (1981-1985). Consultant in Medical Oncologist, University Clinic, Spain ( 1985-2000). He co-founded and was Vice-president of the International Society for Proton Dynamics of Cancer (ISPDC) (2008). Co-editor and author on a special issue in Seminars in Cancer Biology (2017) entitled “The new pH-centric anticancer paradigm in Oncology and Medicine”. Harguindey has published more than 140 scientific publications on a new and integral approach to the understanding of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases based upon hydrogen ion dynamics, from etiopathogenesis to treatment, that he originally and singlehandedly created.
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Institute for Clinical Biology and Metabolism, Vitoria, Spain

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