Male Reproductive Cancers
Epidemiology, Pathology and Genetics
- Publisher
- Springer/Sci-Tech/Trade
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2009
- Category
- Oncology, Genetics & Genomics
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781441904485
- Publish Date
- Dec 2009
- List Price
- $321.5
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Male Reproductive Cancers: Epidemiology, Pathology and Geneticspresents a thoughtful, comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the etiology of the prostate gland and the testes, summarizing decades of research in the three most important etiological disciplines: epidemiology, pathology and genetics.This book is comprised of four distinct sections: Epidemiology, Pathology, Molecular Genetics, and Inherited Susceptibility, with each section divided into chapters categorized by disease. Section A reviews the epidemiology of prostate and testicular cancer, with an emphasis on clinical and environmental factors associated with these diseases. Section B begins by describing various pathological features of prostate cancer, followed by descriptions of the wide variety of testicular cancers as well as a brief section on the use of tumor markers for monitoring disease. Section C focuses on somatic genetic changes in prostate and testicular cancers using new technologies such as comparative genomic hybridization and gene expression profiling. Section D concentrates on the progress made toward understanding inherited susceptibility to prostate cancer and to testicular cancer.