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Main Title Male Reproductive Cancers Epidemiology, Pathology and Genetics / [electronic resource] :
Type EBOOK
Author Foulkes, William D.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Cooney, Kathleen A.
Publisher Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
Year Published 2010
Call Number RC261-271
ISBN 9781441904492
Subjects Medicine ; Oncology ; Human genetics
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0449-2
Collation online resource.
Notes
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Contents Notes
Epidemiology -- The Epidemiology of Prostate Cancer -- The Epidemiology of Testicular Cancer -- Pathology -- Prostate Cancer: A Pathological Perspective -- Testicular Tumor Pathology -- Molecular Genetics -- Somatic Molecular Genetics of Prostate Cancer -- Molecular Genetics of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor -- Inherited Susceptibility -- Identification of Genetic Risk Factors for Prostate Cancer: Analytic Approaches Using Hereditary Prostate Cancer Families -- The Identification of Rare and Common Variants Which Predispose to Prostate Cancer -- Prostate Cancer in Special Populations -- Inherited Susceptibility of Aggressive Prostate Cancer -- Susceptibility Alleles for Testicular Germ Cell Tumor. Male Reproductive Cancers: Epidemiology, Pathology and Genetics presents a thoughtful, comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the etiology of the prostate gland and the testes, summarizing decades of research in the three most important etiological disciplines: epidemiology, pathology and genetics. This book is comprised of four distinct sections: Epidemiology, Pathology, Molecular Genetics, and Inherited Susceptibility, with each section divided into chapters categorized by disease. Section A reviews the epidemiology of prostate and testicular cancer, with an emphasis on clinical and environmental factors associated with these diseases. Section B begins by describing various pathological features of prostate cancer, followed by descriptions of the wide variety of testicular cancers as well as a brief section on the use of tumor markers for monitoring disease. Section C focuses on somatic genetic changes in prostate and testicular cancers using new technologies such as comparative genomic hybridization and gene expression profiling. Section D concentrates on the progress made toward understanding inherited susceptibility to prostate cancer and to testicular cancer.