Title | Prostate Cancer [electronic resource] : Biology, Genetics, and the New Therapeutics / edited by Leland W. K. Chung, William B. Isaacs, Jonathan W. Simons |
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Imprint | Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2001 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-009-4 |
Descript | XVIII, 531 p. 59 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource |
I. Introduction -- 1 Building the Road to Defeat Prostate Cancer: A Dedication to Donald S. Coffey -- II. Cancer Genetics -- 2 Hereditary Prostate Cancer -- 3 AR Gene Alterations in Prostate Cancer Progression -- 4 Lethal Metastatic Human Prostate Cancer: Autopsy Studies and Characteristics of Metastases -- 5 Tumor Suppressor Genes in Prostate Cancer -- 6 Androgen Receptor Polymorphisms and Prostate Cancer Risk -- 7 The Genetic Epidemiology of Prostate Cancer: Closing in on a Complex Disease -- 8 Determination of Gene and Chromosome Dosage in Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Prostatic Carcinoma by Molecular Cytogenetic Techniques -- 9 Genetic Alterations in Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia (PIN) -- 10 Xenograft Models and the Molecular Biology of Human Prostate Cancer -- 11 Comprehensive Analyses of Prostate Gene Expression -- III. Cancer Biology -- 12 The Role of Nuclear Matrix and Cytoskeleton in Cancer -- 13 The Role of Cell Adhesion Molecules in Prostate Development and Carcinogenesis -- 14 Ligand Dependent and Independent Activation of the Androgen Receptor -- 15 Tyrosine Kinases and Cellular Signaling in Prostate Cancer -- 16 Molecular Pathways Underlying Prostate Cancer Progression: The Role of Caveolin-1 -- 17 Angiogenesis and Prostate Cancer -- 18 Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen -- 19 Targeting Antiapoptotic Genes Upregulated by Androgen Withdrawal Using Antisense Oligodeoxynucleotides to Enhance Androgen- and Chemo-Sensitivity in Prostate Cancer -- 20 Stromal-Epithelial Interaction: From Bench to Bedside -- IV. Cancer Therapeutics -- 21 Chemoprevention of Prostate Cancer -- 22 Anatomic Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer -- 23 Radiation Therapy as Applied to Prostate Cancer: Clinical, Technical, and Biologic Considerations -- 24 Prostate Cancer Chemotherapy: Closing Out a Century and Opening a New One -- 25 The Role of Small Bioactive Peptides and Cell Surface Peptidases in Androgen Independent Prostate Cancer -- 26 Development of Dendritic Cell-Based Prostate Cancer Vaccine -- 27 Antiprogression Agents for Prostate Cancer -- 28 Human Gene Therapy for Urological Oncology -- 29 Chemoprevention Trials for Prostate Cancer