Primary Liver Cancer: Challenges and Perspectives

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Jianren Gu
Springer Science & Business Media, Dec 2, 2012 - Medical - 462 pages

"Primary Liver Cancer: Challenges and Perspectives" presents the recent progress in basic and clinical research in Primary Liver Cancer (PLC) in China and around the world. PLC patients in China make up more than 50% of the total patients worldwide. By contributing to the book, the leading experts in the field of liver cancer in China as well as in the US share with readers their new concepts, practices, and experiences from bench to bed, from population study to individual survey, from molecular search to clinical practice, and from early diagnosis to treatment. The book is intended for researchers in the fields of epidemiology, molecular genetics, cell biology, immunology of HCC and other cancers, and clinical oncology in primary liver cancer.

Jianren Gu is a Professor of molecular oncology at the Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering.

 

Contents

1 Concepts Challenges and Perspectives in Cancer Research
1
2 Systemic Dysregulation in the Development of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
19
3 Genomics of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
45
4 Biomarkers of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
79
5 Metabonomics of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
155
6 Signal Transduction of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
178
7 Cancer Stem Cells of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
217
8 Immunology of Liver
232
9 Immunosuppresssion and Immune Escape in Liver Cancer
277
10 Immunotherapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
299
11 Chemoprevention of Hepatic Cancer in Aflatoxin Endemic Areas
338
12 Metastasis of Hepatic Cancer
367
13 Integrated Treatment of Hepatic Cancer
399
14 Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
432
Index
457
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