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Developmental Biology of Neoplastic Growth

By Professor Dr. Alvaro Macieira-Coelho (eds.) , Janni Vestergaard , Mads Bak (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2005
ISBN
978-3-540-25009-8, 978-3-540-27671-5
DOI
10.1007/3-540-27671-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2246467 bytes)
Series
Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology 40
Edition
1
Pages
254\262
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Developmental Biology; Cancer Research; Cell Biolo

Description

In this book, tumour growth is perceived as a deviation from the normal development of the human organism. The molecular, cellular, and tissue determinants of different tumours are discussed showing that each is a different disease, often corresponding to a particular developmental stage. The natural history of several cancers illustrates how clinical incidence can be just the visible part of the iceberg, while the first changes at the tissue level sometimes occur several years before tumour growth becomes manifest. Several mechanisms are proposed to explain the distribution of cancers during the human life span and the decline of the incidence of cancers during human senescence.

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