Prevention of Cancer. New Research

This book presents the latest research on advances in genetics, molecular medicine, biotechnologies, and behavioural sciences that have an impact on primary, secondary and tertiary cancer prevention including: basic mechanisms of neoplastic diseases leading to the identification of molecular pathways that can be employed as targets for cancer prevention; descriptive, analytical, and molecular epidemiology with emphasis on developing biomarkers of cancer risk assessment and response to cancer prevention; and, laboratory and clinical procedures for prognostic evaluation of malignant tumour transformation, progression and response to treatment with cancer preventive agents.It also includes: discoveries of natural substances and synthetic agents that have promising cancer preventive potential and elucidating their mechanistic action; development and assessment of cancer preventive approaches that have potential for being translated into the clinic; cancer prevention pre-clinical studies and clinical trials; and, patient management and education, management of curable lesions, education and lifestyle modification and the role of behavioural factors in cancer etiology and prevention.

• Ch. I - Direct-to-consumer-advertising exposure impedes lifestyle-focused cancer prevention efforts by Dominick L. Frosch
• Ch. II - Antioxidant properties of vitamins and their role in skin cancer prevention by Brenda Newman and Elma D. Baron
• Ch. III - P-glycoprotein expression in human tumors and tissues : the multidrug resistance gene family by Ashima Bhatia and J. P. Singh and Surya Prakash and Sarabjot Sodhi
• Ch. IV - CYP17 as a candidate gene for hormone-related cancers among women : a review of the evidence by Heather Spencer Feigelson and Celeste L. Pearce and W. Ryan Diver and Roberta McKean-Cowdin
• Ch. V - Bone mass density and subsequent risk of prostate cancer by O. Ganry and J. Peng and P. Fardellone
• Ch. VI - Black raspberry extracts induce growth inhibition in human oral carcinoma cells by Ying Feng and Shaoying Chen and Gary D. Stoner and Dian Wang
• Ch. VII - Detection of bladder cancer in patients with asymptomatic hematuria by urinary matrix protein 22, voided cytology and cystoscopy by Ihor S. Sawczuk and Ilya A. Volfson and Emilia Bagiella and Alexandra Sawczuk and Mohamed A. Ghafar
• Ch. VIII - Induction of apoptosis and inhibition of cell proliferation by diphenylmethyl selenocyanate during azoxymethane induced rat colon carcinogenesis by Samit Ghosh and Rajat Kumar Das and Archana Sengupta and Sudin Bhattacharya
• Ch. IX - Hemostatic state in female patients with breast and ovarian cancer by Hussain Alizadeh and Shaikhah Al-Tajer and Shaker A. Mousa
• Ch. X - Development of a fully "humanized" xenograft model of breast cancer - new ideas for the development of pre-clinical prevention models by Jong B. Kim and Robert C. Stein and Mike J. O'Hare
• Ch. XI - Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) like sequence in breast cancer of Egyptian women by Salwa Mostafa Kamal and Rajaa Fakhoury Makki and Dalal Ali Hammoudi
• Ch. XII - Low concentrations of green tea catechins transiently induce and inhibit MAPK signal transduction and growth of human colon tumor cells by Tanja Kautenburger and Thomas W. Becker and Beatrice Louise Pool-Zobel
• Ch. XIII - The effects of red raspberry extract on PAH transport across Calu-3 cell monolayer, an in vitro cell model by Brinda Mahadevan and John E. Mata and Daniel J. Albershardt and Jan F. Stevens and Clifford B. Pereira and Rosita Rodriguez-Proteau and William M. Baird