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Understanding Cancer

From Basics to Therapeutics

  • 1st Edition - January 13, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Buddhi Prakash Jain, Shweta Pandey
  • Language: English

Understanding Cancer: From Basics to Therapeutics presents both basic concepts and research prospects in the field of cancer biology. This book summarizes the fundamental aspects o… Read more

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Description

Understanding Cancer: From Basics to Therapeutics presents both basic concepts and research prospects in the field of cancer biology. This book summarizes the fundamental aspects of cancer and presents a detailed description of molecular aspects as well as treatment and therapeutics for patients.

The book is divided into three parts: the first part deals with the basics of cancer, including etiology and medical diagnosis; the second part explores the molecular mechanisms associated with cancer, focusing on cell cycle and apoptosis, cell metabolism, gene regulation, epigenetics, and stem cells; and the third part is dedicated to therapeutics, discussing chemo and radiotherapies, gene, hormone, herbal, and immunotherapies.

It is a valuable resource for cancer researchers, oncologists, graduate students, and biomedical researchers who need to understand the fundamental topics related to cancer to apply to their research work or clinical setting.

Key features

  • Presents fundamental aspects of cancer in a didactic way to make the content easily applicable by readers
  • Illustrates the content through detailed images developed by the authors exclusively for the book to facilitate comprehension
  • Summarizes the content of each chapter with several tables and schematic diagrams for quick consult

Readership

Graduate students, cancer researchers; Medical doctors, clinicians, oncologists

Table of contents

1. A brief tour guide to cancer diseasePadmini Bisoyi 2. Malignant tumors – as cancerPadmini Bisoyi 3. Etiology of cancerAmena Mahmood and Rahul Srivastava4. Medical diagnosis of cancerAmena Mahmood and Rahul Srivastava5. Molecular mechanisms in cancer developmentArun Kumar Kashyap and Sumit K. Dubey6. Cancer and cell cycleRohini R. Nair and Suresh S. Yadav7. Cancer and apoptosisShyam B. Prasad8. Fundamentals of cell metabolism and cancerRagunathan Devendran, Vignesh Ramesh, and Prabu Gnanasekaran9. Cancer epigenetics: DNA methylation and histone modificationsTapan Sharma10. Cancer epigenetics: Chromatin remodeling and other epigenetic mechanismsTapan Sharma11. Alteration in major cell signaling pathways in CancerShweta Pandey, Nisha, Buddhi Prakash Jain12. Cancer stem cellsMd. Sabir Ali13. Cancer and regulation of gene expression Tapan Sharma14. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy for CancerSivapar V. Mathan, Mohit Rajput, Rana P. Singh15. Cancer gene therapies progress in pre and postgenomics eraDeepak Babu, and Amit Ranjan16. Hormone therapy for cancer treatmentSavita Devi17. Natural herbal products for cancer therapyDurgeshwer Singh, Khushboo Kumari and Salim Ahmed18. Immunotherapy for cancer treatmentKundan K. Rajak

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 13, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Buddhi Prakash Jain

Dr. Buddhi Prakash Jain is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Zoology, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India. He completed his doctoral studies at the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) New Delhi, India. His research interests include gene expression regulation and endoplasmic reticulum stress in cancer. He is the recipient of several awards including a gold medal in Master Programme (M.Sc.), EMBO travel award, DST (Department of Science and Technology) Govt of India, Young Scientist travel award, and has published several papers in reputed international journals and a number of books and book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, School of Life Sciences, Mahatma Ghandi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India

SP

Shweta Pandey

Shweta Pandey is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Govt VYT PG Autonomous College, Durg Chhatisgarh, India. Dr. Pandey received a PhD from the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) New Delhi, India. She has vast teaching experience and has published several papers in reputed international journals, many book chapters in edited books, and co-edited Protocols in Biochemistry and Clinical Biochemistry (Elsevier, 2020). Her research interests include cell cycle regulation, molecular and cell mechanisms of tumor cells, and cancer biology.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Govt VYT PG Autonomous College, Durg Chhatisgarh, India

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