Cancer Cytogenetics

Chromosomal and Molecular Genetic Abberations of Tumor Cells

Sverre Heim, Felix Mitelman (Autoren)

Online Resource

752 Seiten

2010 | 3rd edition
Wiley-Blackwell (Hersteller)
9781118010136 (ISBN)

Infos

Comprehensively updated edition of the preeminent book on this topic by a panel of the world's leading experts The 3rd Edition offers a comprehensive, expanded, and up-to-date review of recent dramatic advances in this area, incorporating a vast amount of new data from the latest basic and clinical investigations.

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Cancer Cytogenetics, 3rd Edition, offers a comprehensive, expanded, and up-to-date review of recent dramatic advances in this area and incorporates a vast amount of new data from the latest basic and clinical investigations. Edited by two leading experts, and now involving a new panel of international experts, the book offers an authoritative description of neoplastic processes at the chromosomal level of genomic organization. Researchers in cytogenetics, medical and molecular genetics, cellular and molecular biology, cancer research, clinical oncology, and hematology will find this reference both thorough and authoritative.

Autor

Both Sverre Heim, PhD (born 1951) and Felix Mitelman, PhD (born 1940) are well established internationally as experts on cancer cytogenetics. Besides having coauthored Cancer Cytogenetics (1987) and Cancer Cytogenetics, 2nd edition (1995), they have, together and separately, written over 1000 scientific articles on this topic.

Inhalt

Preface vii Contributors ix

1. A New Approach to an Old Problem 1
Sverre Heim and Felix Mitelman

2. Cytogenetic Methods 9
David Gisselsson

3. Cytogenetic Nomenclature 17
Sverre Heim and Felix Mitelman

4. Nonrandom Chromosome Abnormalities in Cancer—An Overview 25
Sverre Heim and Felix Mitelman

5. Acute Myeloid Leukemia 45
Bertil Johansson and Christine J. Harrison

6. Myelodysplastic Syndromes 141
Harold J. Olney and Michelle M. Le Beau

7. Chronic Myeloid Leukemia 179
Thoas Fioretos and Bertil Johansson

8. Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms 209
Peter Vandenberghe, Lucienne Michaux, and Anne Hagemeijer

9. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia 233
Christine J. Harrison and Bertil Johansson

10. Mature B- and T-Cell Neoplasms and Hodgkin Lymphoma 297
Reiner Siebert

11. Tumors of the Upper Aerodigestive Tract 375
Mihaela Avramut and Susanne M. Gollin

12. Tumors of the Lung 415
Penny Nymark, Eeva Kettunen, and Sakari Knuutila

13. Tumors of the Digestive Tract 429
Georgia Bardi and Sverre Heim

14. Tumors of the Urinary Tract 463
Paola Dal Cin and Azra H. Ligon

15. Tumors of the Breast 493
Manuel R. Teixeira, Nikos Pandis, and Sverre Heim

16. Tumors of the Female Genital Organs 519
Francesca Micci and Sverre Heim

17. Tumors of the Male Genital Organs 557
Manuel R. Teixeira and Sverre Heim

18. Tumors of Endocrine Glands 577
Jorn Bullerdiek and David Gisselsson

19. Tumors of the Nervous System 597
Aaron M. Bender, Fausto J. Rodriguez, Gobinda Sarkar, and Robert B. Jenkins

20. Tumors of the Eye 621
Karen Sisley

21. Tumors of the Skin 641
Fredrik Mertens and Sverre Heim

22. Tumors of Bone 655
Fredrik Mertens and Nils Mandahl

23. Soft Tissue Tumors 675
Nils Mandahl and Fredrik Mertens

Index 713

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.10.2010
• Verlagsort: Hoboken
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• ISBN-13: 9781118010136 / 9781118010136
• Zustand: Neuware