Drug Resistance in Oncology (Illustrated ed)

This volume focuses on the mechanisms that involve alterations in cellular biochemistry, properties related to the physiology of the solid tumour mass and changes in the host metabolic status induced by the presence of the tumour - applying this information to the resistance to cancer chemotherapy, radiation therapy and biomodulator therapies.

Written by over 25 experts from diverse scientific areas, this book: covers angiogenesis and blood-flow, pH, oxygenation, molecular transport and tissue pressure, oncogenes and tumour-suppressor genes, extracellular matrix and phosphate metabolism; discusses clonal subpopulations, resistance in leukimia, the blood brain barrier, tumour/host interactions and the metastatic phenotype; examines glutathione, metallothionein, glutathione-S-transferases, oxazaphosphorane metabolism, cytochrome P-450, multi-drug resistance and nuclear matrix influence; and presents the effects of antioestrogens, chorionic gonadotropin, transforming and fibroblast growth factors, metastases and radiation resistance.