Principles of Molecular Oncology

Selecting the Right Targets for Cancer Therapy.- Clinical Importance of Prognostic Factors.- Genetic Markers in Sporadic Tumors.- Genetic Markers in Breast Tumors with Hereditary Predisposition.- Circulating Tumor Markers.- Antibody-Based Proteomics Analysis of Tumor Cell Signaling Pathways.- Gene Expression Arrays for Pathway Analysis in Cancer Research.- Signaling Pathways in Cancer.- Estrogen Receptor Pathways and Breast Cancer.- Cyclin-Dependent Kinases and Their Regulators as Potential Targets for Anticancer Therapeutics.- Angiogenesis Switch Pathways.- Apoptosis Pathways and New Anticancer Agents.- Genomic Instability, DNA Repair Pathways and Cancer.- Epigenomics and Cancer.- Harnessing the Power of Immunity to Battle Cancer: Much Ado about Nothing or All's Well That Ends Well?.- Aurora Kinases: A New Target for Anticancer Drug Development.- Emerging Molecular Therapies: Drugs Interfering With Signal Transduction Pathways.- Suicide Gene Therapy.- Genotypes That Predict Toxicity and Genotypes That Predict Efficacy of Anticancer Drugs.- A Personal Account of the Chemoprevention of Breast Cancer: Possible or Not Possible?.