Liquid Biopsy in Urogenital Cancers and its Clinical Utility
- 1st Edition - January 30, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Seyed Mohammad Kazem Aghamir
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 8 8 4 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 3 9 7 - 6
Liquid Biopsy in Urogenital Cancers and Their Clinical Utility presents updated information on liquid biopsy techniques and their utility for diagnosing urological cancers.… Read more
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Request a sales quoteLiquid Biopsy in Urogenital Cancers and Their Clinical Utility presents updated information on liquid biopsy techniques and their utility for diagnosing urological cancers. As a promising and recent diagnostic method, these techniques can be used for identifying tumors at initial stage, thus greatly improving treatment outcomes and survivorship. Chapters provide an overview of liquid biopsy as a new tool for diagnosis, monitoring and personalized medicine in urogenital cancers and explain its applicability in different cancer types, including bladder, prostate, kidney and testis tumors, female genital tract and pediatric urogenital tumors.
This is a valuable resource for cancer researchers, oncologists, graduate students, urologists and biomedical researchers who need to understand more about liquid biopsy and its use for urogenital cancers.
- Presents an overview on liquid biopsy techniques and their applications in cancer diagnosis
- Explains how to extract circulating tumor DNA, RNA and circulating tumor cells and extracellular vehicles from blood samples to identify the urology cancers, including testis, prostate, bladder and kidney
- Includes several images and schematic diagrams that illustrate content and facilitate its comprehension
Graduate students, cancer researchers. Medical doctors, oncologists, urologists
1. Introduction2. Overview of Liquid Biopsy3. Liquid Biopsy as a new tool for diagnosis, monitoring and personalized medicine in urogenital cancers4. Liquid biopsy in Bladder Tumors5. Circulating tumor cells and DNAs in Prostate Tumors6. Liquid Biopsy in Kidney Tumor7. Liquid Biopsy in male genital tract: testis tumor8. Liquid Biopsy in Female Genital tract9. Liquid biopsy in Pediatric urogenital tumors
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 30, 2022
- No. of pages (Paperback): 208
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323998840
- eBook ISBN: 9780323983976
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Seyed Mohammad Kazem Aghamir
Dr Seyed Mohammad Kazem Aghamir is a full professor at Tehran University of Medical Sciences and runs the urology research center. He conducts several projects at URC in the field of basic science and high technology in urological malignancies. Very recently, he has published two books “Liquid Biopsy in Urogenital Cancers and its Clinical Utility” and “stem cell in urology”.
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Professor, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranRead Liquid Biopsy in Urogenital Cancers and its Clinical Utility on ScienceDirect