Biomarkers in Breast Cancer /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Gasparini, Giampietro. (Editor), Hayes, Daniel F. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana, 2006.
Edition:1st ed. 2006.
Series:Cancer Drug Discovery and Development,
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.