Authors:W.P. Peters, D.W. Visscher,
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: oncobiology, advances, volume, cancer, breast
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1998-09-08
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 0762303883
ISBN-13: 9780762303885

Breast cancer research has never been in such an exciting and hopeful phase as today. From a clinical perspective, the discovery of genetic markers of risk in a proportion of familial breast cancer cases has opened up new vistas for understanding and ultimately preventing this disease. On the other hand, aggressive - even daring - therapies are being proven to be effective against advanced breast cancer. For the breast cancer experimentalist, this is also a time of great advance. Although animal and cell culture breast cancer models have proven to be of great use, there are now increasing oppo