Control of Growth Factors and Prevention of Cancer

Herausgegeben:Sporn, Michael B.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It is now apparent that several fields of investigation areconverging upon each other as the goal of finding apractical way to prevent cancer is pursued. The presentmonograph represents the efforts of an interdisciplinary ESOTask Force that was convened to assess interactions ofpeptide growth factors and steroid-like molecules in theprevention of cancer. Each of the participants in the TaskForce represents a differentscientific discipline, and themonogrph is intended to be a synthesis of their differentapproaches to the common problem of cancer prevention.It is hoped that the reader will find this monograph to beof use in the evaluation of both preclinical and clinicalapproaches to the major issues that face us inchemoprevention. It is clear that prevention of cancer is anidea whose time has come, and the problem now is toimplement the most effective approaches toward achieving thedesired goals.

Produktdetails

• ESO Monographs
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 210mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 237g
• ISBN-13: 9783642773853
• ISBN-10: 3642773850
• Artikelnr.: 36121490

Inhaltsangabe

Concepts of Preneoplasia for the Goal of Cancer Prevention.- Steroids, Retinoids, and their Mode of Action.- Epidermal Growth Factor, Glucocorticoid Hormones and Prolactin Act Sequentially in the Induction of Milk Protein Gene Expression.- Interactions of Retinoids and Transforming Growth Factor-Beta in the Chemoprevention of Cancer.- Growth Regulatory Networks in the Prostate.- Prospects for the Chemoprevention of Breast Cancer.