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    Cancer diagnostics : current and future trends / edited by Robert M. Nakamura [and others].

    • Title:Cancer diagnostics : current and future trends / edited by Robert M. Nakamura [and others].
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Nakamura, Robert M., 1927-
    • Published/Created:Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, ©2004.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Cancer--Diagnosis.
      Cancer--Molecular diagnosis.
    • Medical Subjects: Neoplasms--diagnosis.
      Laboratory Techniques and Procedures.
      Tumor Markers, Biological--diagnostic use.
    • Description:x, 508 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
    • Series:Contemporary cancer research.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:1588291677 (hbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:1. General consideration in the use and application of laboratory tests for the evaluation of cancer / Robert M. Nakamura and Wayne W. Grody
      2. New insights and future advances in cancer diagnostics : limitations of conventional tumor markers / Yasushi Kasahara and Yutaka Tsukada
      3. changing role of the pathologist in the management of the cancer patient / Raymond B. Nagle
      4. Types of circulating tumor markers and their clinical applications / James T. Wu
      5. Identification of risk factors for early neoplasm / James T. Wu
      6. Emerging circulating tumor markers / James T. Wu
      7. Prostate cancer markers : from discovery to the clinic / Judith A. Finaly, Stephen D. Mikolajczyk, Thomas M. Pribyl, R. Bruce Wallace and Harry G. Rittenhouse
      8. Serum tumor marker test profile in testicular germ-cell tumors / Frank J. Liu, Robert M. Nakamura, C. Howard Tseng and Kevin S. Liu
      9. Autoantibodies, autoimmunity, and cancers : markers for identification of early stages of tumors / Robert M. Nakamura and Eng M. Tan
      10. MHC tetramers : a tool for direct ex vivo detection and enumeration of tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes / Jennie C. C. Chang, Ferdynand Kos, Charles T. Nugent and Kristine Kuus-Reichel
      11. New applications of flow cytometry in cancer diagnosis and therapy / Sophie Song and Faramarz Naeim
      12. Molecular diagnostics in neoplastic hematopathology / Daniel A. Arber
      13. HER2 and topoisomerase II[alpha] in breast carcinoma / Kenneth J. Bloom
      14. Study of sentinel lymph nodes in the staging of malignant neoplasms / Alice A. Roberts and Alistair J. Cochran
      15. marker for early diagnosis of lung cancer : the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A2/B1 (hnRNP A2/B1) / Jordi Tauler, Alfredo Martinez and James L. Mulshine
      16. Molecular techniques in cancer diagnosis and management / Jeffrey S. Ross, Karen Gray, Rebecca Mosher and James Stec
      17. DNA repair defects in cancer / Ramune Reliene and Robert H. Schiestl
      18. Chromosomal and molecular cytogenetic assays for evaluation of human tumors / Peter C. Hu, Vicki L. Hopwood and Armand B. Glassman
      19. Microsatellite alterations as diagnostic and prognostic molecular markers in patients with cancer / Bret Taback and Dave S. B. Hoon
      20. Recent advances in molecular classification and prognosis of colorectal cancer / Tsung-Teh Wu and Asif Rashid
      21. Genetic counseling for hereditary cancer predisposition testing / Joyce L. Seldon and Patricia A. Ganz
      22. Diagnosis of ataxia-telangiectasia : ATM mutations associated with cancer / Midori Missui, Shareef A. Nahas, Helen H. Chun and Richard A. Gatti.
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