Breast Cancer Metastasis and Drug Resistance : Progress and Prospects - Ahmad, Aamir; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Preface -- Breast Cancer Statistics -- Epidemiology of Breast Cancer in Women -- The Complexities of Racial Disparity in Breast Cancer -- Major signaling pathways involved in Breast Cancer -- Breast Cancer Heterogeneity in Primary and Metastatic Disease -- Understanding Triple-negative Breast Cancer -- The biology of the deadly love connection between obesity, diabetes and breast cancer -- Progression of Early Breast Cancer to an Invasive Phenotype -- Pre-clinical modeling of breast cancer - which model to choose? -- Modeling breast cancer progression in 4-D -- Bone Metastasis of Breast Cancer -- Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Breaching of The Blood-Brian Barrier By Circulating Breast Cancer Cells -- Resistance to Anthracyclines and Taxanes in Breast cancer -- Understanding of Tamoxifen Resistance of Breast Cancer based on Integrative Bioinformatics Approaches -- Current understanding of drug resistance mechanisms and therapeutic targets in HER2 overexpressing breast cancers -- Platinum and ruthenium complexes for the therapy of breast cancer diseases.-Development of Notch Pathway Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy -- Systems Biology Approaches in Breast Cancer Studies -- Epigenetic Factors in Breast Cancer Progression -- Breast Cancer Stem Cells and miRNAs -- Breast Cancer Stem Cells: responsible for therapeutic resistance and relapse? -- MicroRNAs in Breast Cancer Research: Progress and Promise -- Index.
Keywords: Cancer research; Drug resistance; Cancer Research; Drug Resistance