Encyclopedia of Cancer.4vols

Contents by Subject Area
Contributors
A Guide to Using the Encyclopedia
Foreword
Preface
Adeno-Associated Virus: A Vector for High-Efficiency Gene
Transduction
Animal Models of Tumor Onset, Growth, and Metasis
Antibodies in Cancer Therapy, Genetically Engineered
Antibody-Toxin and Growth Factor-Toxin Fusion Proteins,
Engineering
Anti-idiotypic Antibody Vaccines
Antioxidants: Carcinogenic and Chemopreventive Properties
Antisense: Chemical Modifications
Antisense: Progress toward Gene-Directed Cancer Therapy
Ataxia Telangiectasia Syndrome
Autocrine and Paracrine Growth Mechanisms in Cancer Progression
and Metastasis
bcl-2 and B-cell Neoplasia: Dysregulation of Programmed Cell
Death in Cancer
BCR/ABL
Biochemotherapy for Advanced Melanoma
Brain Tumors: Epidemiology, Molecular and Cellular Abnormalities
Breast Cancer: Genetic Interaction of Myc and p53
Breast Cancer: Molecular Epidemiology
Breast Cancer and Radiation Therapy
Cancer Prevention: Contrasting Dietary Modification with
Intervention Agents Carcinogen-DNA Adducts
Carcinogenesis due to Tobacco: Molecular Mechanisms
Carcinogenesis: Role of Active Oxygen Species
Cell Cycle Control
Cell Cycle Control Gene Defects and Human Cancer
Cell death and Survival after Cytostatic Treatment
Cell-Matrix Interactions
Cellular Immunity to Cancer
Chemoprevention Agents
Chemoprevention: Intermediate Markers
Chemoprevention: International Studies
Chemoprevention Models
Chemoprevention Trials: Epithelial Carcinogenesis and the
Biological Basis of Intervention
Chemoprevention and Vitamins: Clinical Trials
Chemotherapy: Synergism and Antagonism
Chromosome Aberrations
Cisplatin and Related Drugs
c-mos Protooncogene
c-myc Protooncogene
Colon Cancer: Dietary Prevention and Chemoprevention
Colorectal Cancer: Epidemiology
Colorectal Cancer: Molecular and Cellular Abnormalities
Constitutive and Inducible Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecules
in Cancer Matastasis
Differentiation and Cancer
DNA Damage, Mutation, and Repair
DNA Methylation and Cancer
DNA Tumor Viruses: Adenovirus
DNA Tumor Viruses: Papilloma
Drug Resistance: Agents That Alkylate or Damage DNA
Drug Resistance: Alterations in Drug Uptake or Extrusion
Drug Resistance to Chemotherapy: Mechanism
Drug Resistance: DNA Sequence Amplification
Drug Resistance: Inhibitors of Folate Metabolism
Drug Resistance: Inhibitors of Topoisomerases
Drug Resistance: Overview of Mechanisms
Epidemiology in the Study of Cancer
Epstein-Barr Virus and Neoplasia
Ewing's Sarcoma (Peripheral PNET)
Extracellular Matrix and Matrix Receptors: Alterations during
Tumor
Progression
Gastric Cancer: Molecular and Cellular Abnormalities
Gene Therapy of Cancer
Gene Therapy Strategies for Brain Cancer
Gene Therapy Vectors, Safety Considerations
Germ Cell Tumors
Glutathione Transferases
Glycoproteins and Glycosylation Changes in Cancer
Growth Regulation by Endogenous Growth Suppressor Peptides
Growth Regulatory Proteins and Their Receptors
Hematopoiesis
Hematopoietic Growth Factors
Hepadnaviruses and Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Hepatitis B and C Viruses and Liver Cancer
Her2/neu: A Receptor Tyrosine Kinase with Developmental and
Oncogenic Activity
HRAS1 Minisatellite Instability and Cancer Risk
HTLV- and HIV-Associated Malignancies
Hyperthermia
Immune Deficiency: Opportunistic Tumors
Immunotherapy of Cancer with Vaccines
Insulin Receptors (IGF1 and IGF2)
Interferons: Cellular and Molecular Biology of Their Actions
Leukemia: Interactions between Drugs and Regulators in Treatment
Leukemia: Molecular and Cellular Abnormalities
Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
Liposome-Mediated Gene Therapy for Cancer
Lung Cancer: Genetic Epidemiology
Lung Cancer: Molecular and Cellular Abnormalities
Lymphoid Neoplasms: Molecular Biology
Macrophages
Melanoma: Molecular and Cellular Abnormalities
Molecular Basis for Tumor Immunity
Molecular Guided Isotopic Therapy
Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer Invasion