Systems Biology of Tumor Dormancy - Enderling, Heiko; Almog, Nava.; Hlatky, Lynn.; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Foreword -- Preface -- Part 1: Angiogenesis -- Genes and Regulatory Pathways Involved in Persistence of Dormant Micro-Tumors -- The Host Support Niche as a Control Point for Tumor Dormancy - Implications for Tumor Development and Beyond -- Insights into the Regulation of Tumor Dormancy by Angiogenesis in Experimental Tumors -- Part 2: Stem Cells and Signaling Pathways -- Cancer Stem Cells and Tumor Dormancy -- Regulation of Tumor Cell Dormancy by Tissue Microenvironments and Autophagy -- Tumor Dormancy, Oncogene Addiction, Cellular Senescence and Self Renewal Programs -- Part 3: Immune System -- Multifaceted Kinetics of Immuno-Evasion from Tumor Dormancy -- Tumor Dormancy and Cancer Stem Cells: Two Sides of the Same Coin? -- Tumor Dormncy: Long-Term Survival in a Hostile Environment -- A Review of Mathematical Models of Cancer-Immune Interactions in the Context of Tumor Dormancy -- Part 4: Mathematical Biosciences and Dynamical Systems Modeling -- Regulation of Tumor Dormancy and Role of Microenvironment: A Mathematical Model -- Seeing the Invisible -- How Mathematical Models Uncover Tumor Dormancy, Reconstruct the Natural History of Cancer, and Assess the Effects of Treatment -- Index.
Keywords: Systems biology; Cancer research; Medicine; Systems Biology; Cancer Research; Biomedicine, general