Title | Cancer and Pregnancy [electronic resource] / edited by Eytan R. Barnea, Eric Jauniaux, Peter E. Schwartz |
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Imprint | London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2001 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0707-1 |
Descript | XI, 308p. online resource |
I: Clinical Aspects: Diagnosis and Management -- 1 The Epidemiology of Cancer in Pregnancy -- 2 Placental and Fetal Cancers -- 3 Breast Cancer and Pregnancy -- 4 Gynaecologic Malignancies in Pregnancy -- 5 Hematologic Malignancies in Pregnancy -- 6 Melanoma in Pregnancy -- 7 Rare Tumours in Pregnancy -- 8 Colorectal Cancer in Pregnancy -- 9 Radiologic Diagnosis of Cancer in Pregnancy -- 10 Pregnancy Derived Tumor Marker -- 11 Chemo and Radiation Therapy During Pregnancy -- 12 Management of Cancer in Pregnancy (Case Reports) -- 13 Transplacental Carcinogenesis: Role of Chemicals, Radiation and Viruses -- II Comparative Aspects of Pregnancy Development and Tumour Biology -- 14 Metabolism of Chemotherapeutic Drugs by Maternal and Conceptus Tissues -- 15 Adverse Reproductive Outcome Potential of Cancer Therapies During Pregnancy -- 16 Immunomodulatory Analogies Between Trophoblastic and Cancer Cells and Their Hosts -- 17 Protective Role of Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin and Luteinizing Hormone Against Breast Cancer -- 18 Proliferation, Differentiation and Apoptosis in Pregnancy and Cancer -- 19 Controlled vs Uncontrolled Angiogenesis: Color Doppler Studies -- 20 Angiogenesis and Vasculogenesis in Pregnancy and in Tumor Development -- 21 Trophoblast Implantation Versus Tumor Invasion -- 22 Pregnancy Derived Compounds that Control Proliferation -- 23 Cancer and Pregnancy: Bioethical and Legal Dilemmas -- Epilogue Cancer and Pregnancy: a Reason for Hope