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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.
List of contents
1. A brief tour guide to cancer disease
Padmini Bisoyi 2. Malignant tumors - as cancer
Padmini Bisoyi 3. Etiology of cancer
Amena Mahmood and Rahul Srivastava4. Medical diagnosis of cancer
Amena Mahmood and Rahul Srivastava5. Molecular mechanisms in cancer development
Arun Kumar Kashyap and Sumit K. Dubey6. Cancer and cell cycle
Rohini R. Nair and Suresh S. Yadav7. Cancer and apoptosis
Shyam B. Prasad8. Fundamentals of cell metabolism and cancer
Ragunathan Devendran, Vignesh Ramesh, and Prabu Gnanasekaran9. Cancer epigenetics: DNA methylation and histone modifications
Tapan Sharma10. Cancer epigenetics: Chromatin remodeling and other epigenetic mechanisms
Tapan Sharma11. Alteration in major cell signaling pathways in Cancer
Shweta Pandey, Nisha, Buddhi Prakash Jain12. Cancer stem cells
Md. Sabir Ali13. Cancer and regulation of gene expression
Tapan Sharma14. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy for Cancer
Sivapar V. Mathan, Mohit Rajput, Rana P. Singh15. Cancer gene therapies progress in pre and postgenomics era
Deepak Babu, and Amit Ranjan16. Hormone therapy for cancer treatment
Savita Devi17. Natural herbal products for cancer therapy
Durgeshwer Singh, Khushboo Kumari and Salim Ahmed18. Immunotherapy for cancer treatment
Kundan K. Rajak
About the author
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.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.
