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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808971303321

Titolo

Novel targets in breast disease / / edited by Stan Lipkowitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Washington, DC, : IOS Press, c2003

ISBN

1-280-50593-1

9786610505937

1-4175-1152-4

600-00-0505-9

1-60129-449-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (97 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

LipkowitzStan

Disciplina

616.99/44906

Soggetti

Breast - Diseases

Breast - Cancer

Breast - Cancer - Treatment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This is the book ed. of the journal Breast disease, vol. 15 (2002), issn 0888-6008"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; Contents; Introduction; Targeting the estrogen receptor in clinical breast cancer; HER-2/Neu signaling and therapeutic approaches in breast cancer; Farnesyltransferase inhibitors: Potential therapeutic for inflammatory breast cancer?; Role of cell cycle control and cyclin-dependent kinases in breast cancer; Heat shock protein 90 is a rational molecular target in breast cancer; The proteasome as a novel target for the treatment of breast cancer; Apoptosis and the treatment of breast cancer; Immunologic targets for breast cancer

Sommario/riassunto

This work is devoted to therapies that take advantage of molecular targets relevant to breast cancer - so called novel molecular therapies. It presents a sampling of both old and new molecularly targeted therapies that are being developed.