Liquid Biopsy in Urogenital Cancers and Its Clinical Utility

Liquid Biopsy in Urogenital Cancers and Their Clinical Utility presents updated information on liquid biopsy techniques and their utility for diagnosing urological cancers. As a promising and recent diagnostic method, these techniques can be used for identifying tumors at initial stage, thus greatly improving treatment outcomes and survivorship. Chapters provide an overview of liquid biopsy as a new tool for diagnosis, monitoring and personalized medicine in urogenital cancers and explain its applicability in different cancer types, including bladder, prostate, kidney and testis tumors, female genital tract and pediatric urogenital tumors.
This is a valuable resource for cancer researchers, oncologists, graduate students, urologists and biomedical researchers who need to understand more about liquid biopsy and its use for urogenital cancers.

List of contents

1. Introduction2. Overview of Liquid Biopsy3. Liquid Biopsy as a new tool for diagnosis, monitoring and personalized medicine in urogenital cancers4. Liquid biopsy in Bladder Tumors5. Circulating tumor cells and DNAs in Prostate Tumors6. Liquid Biopsy in Kidney Tumor7. Liquid Biopsy in male genital tract: testis tumor8. Liquid Biopsy in Female Genital tract9. Liquid biopsy in Pediatric urogenital tumors

About the author

Dr Seyed Mohammad Kazem Aghamir is a full professor at Tehran University of Medical Sciences and runs the urology research center. He conducts several projects at URC in the field of basic science and high technology in urological malignancies. Very recently, he has published two books “Liquid Biopsy in Urogenital Cancers and its Clinical Utility” and “stem cell in urology”.

Product details

• Authors: Seyed Mohammad Kazem Aghamir, Seyed Mohammad (Full Professor Kazem Aghamir
• Assisted by: Seyed Mohammad Kazem Aghamir (Editor), Seyed Mohammad (Full Professor Kazem Aghamir (Editor), Seyed Mohammad Kazem Aghamir (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780323998840
• ISBN: 978-0-323-99884-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, Biology, life sciences, Life sciences: general issues