Biomarkers in Breast Cancer - Gasparini, Giampietro; Hayes, Daniel F.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana, 2006)
General Topics -- Guidelines for the Design of Clinical Studies for the Development and Validation of Therapeutically Relevant Biomarkers and Biomarker-Based Classification Systems -- Analytical Aspects of Biomarker Immunoassays in Cancer Research -- Tissue Microarrays -- Assays for Gene Expression and Post-Translational Protein Abnormalities -- Gene Expression Profiling with DNA Microarrays -- Assays for DNA Abnormalities -- Assays for Gene Amplification -- Tissue Predictive Biomakers -- Cell Kinetics -- Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator and PAI-1 -- Predictive Value of c--erb-B2 for Endocrine Therapy and Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer -- erb-B2 as a Therapeutic Target -- The Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Pathway as a Selective Molecular-Targeted Treatment in Human Breast Cancer -- p53 as a Prognostic and Predictive Indicator -- Predictive Biomarkers in Body Fluids -- Occult Metastatic Cells in Breast Cancer Patients -- Circulating HER2/neu -- Circulating Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor -- Detection of Early Tumor Dissemination in Patients With Breast Cancer -- Future Directions -- New Technologies/New Markers/New Challenges.
Keywords: Cancer research; Cancer Research