Research Catalog

Title

Molecular endocrinology of cancer / edited by Jonathan Waxman.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Waxman, Jonathan

Description

ix, 428 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cancer, clinical science in practice

Uniform Title

Cancer, clinical science in practice.

Subjects

• Endocrinology
• Neoplasms > therapy
• Cancer > Endocrine aspects
• Endocrine glands > Cancer
• Hormones
• Neoplasms > physiopathology

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• 1. The Type 1 Growth Factor Receptor Family, Their Ligands and Their Role in Human Cancers / T. Rajkumar and W. J. Gullick -- 2. The Fibroblast Growth Factor Family and Their Receptors / Pita Enriquez Harris and John K. Heath -- 3. The Biological Role of Transforming Growth Factor Beta in Cancer Development / Bradley A. Arrick and Rik Derynck -- 4. Bombesin and Its Receptor / Michael J. Seckl and Enrique Rozengurt -- 5. Gonadotrophin-Releasing Hormone and Its Receptor / Karin A. Eidne and Lorraine Anderson -- 6. Cytokines / T. Hamblin -- 7. Familial Cancer / Audrey D. Goddard and Donald M. Black -- 8. Diet / Peter Boyle and Patrick Maisonneuve -- 9. Breast Cancer: New Biological Approaches to Treatment / Robert B. Dickson and Robert Clarke -- 10. The Biological Basis for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer / Jonathan Waxman, Andrew Stubbs and Hardev Pandha -- 11. Carcinoid Tumours / S. Bloom and P. Hammond --
• 12. Humoral Hypercalcaemia / John J. Wysolmerski and Arthur E. Broadus -- 13. Anaemia of Cancer / Carole B. Miller and Jerry L. Spivak.

ISBN

0521460670 (hardback)

LCCN

95039973

OCLC

• 33246740
• ocm33246740
• SCSB-4779649

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries