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Pathobiology of Cancer
From Q-bio
Topics:
Cell-cell Interaction in tumor microenvironment, tumor progression, chemoprevention, cancer stem cells
References:
- Weinberg, R.A. 2014. The Biology of Cancer. Garland Science. NY. Ch. 2. The Nature of Cancer, pp. 31-50. http://www.garlandscience.com/res/pdf/tboc2_ch2_draft.pdf
Additional references:
- Byrne, H.M. 2010. Dissecting cancer through mathematics: from the cell to the animal model. Nature Rev. Cancer 10:221-230.
- Hanin, L. 2011. Why victory in the war on cancer remains elusive: Biomedical hypotheses and mathematical models. Cancers 3:340-367.
- Merlo, L.M.F., J.W.Pepper, B.J. Reid, and C.C. Maley. 2006. Cancer as an evolutionary and ecological process. Nature Rev. Cancer 6:924-935.
- Michor, F., Y. Iwasa, and M.A. Nowak. 2004. Dynamics of cancer progression. Nature Rev. Cancer 4:197-205.
Online resources:
- Medline database of biomedical literature (Follow links: Advanced, Field (Title/Abstract), search terms, subject heading “models, theoretical”, or search key word “mathematical model”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
- National Cancer Institute: Cancer types, Grants & Training, Research areas (biology, causes, genomics, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, screening, clinical trails).
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics
- Statistical tools and population data for researchers
http://www.cancer.gov/research/resources/statistical-tools
- PubMed, publically accessible interface for Medline database of biomedical literature
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
- Kufe, D.W., R.E. Pollock, R.R. Weichselbaum, R.C. Bast Jr., T.S. Gansler, J.F. Holland, E. Emil (eds.). 2003. Cancer Medicine, 6th ed. Decker, Inc. NY. Table of contents available online. Contents searchable online at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books&itool=toolbar)
Reference books:
- Kimmel, M. and D.E. Axelrod. 2015. Branching Processes in Biology. Springer, NY (Includes several topics related to cancer dynamics: cancer chemotherapy, cell cycle, population models, gene amplification, drug resistance, mutations, stathmokinesis, cancer progression and metastasis, etc.)
- DeVita, V.T., T.S. Lawrence, S.A. Rosenber (eds.) 2011. Cancer : principles & practice of oncology. 9th edition.Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health, Philadelphia. (Medical School level textbook)
Pecorino, L. 2012. Molecular Biology of Cancer: Mechanisms, Targets, and Therapeutics, 3rd edition. Oxford University Press, NY. (Undergraduate level textbook)
- Weinberg, R.A. 2014. The Biology of Cancer, 2nd edition. Garland Science. NY. Includes CD. (Graduate level textbook)
- Wodarz, D. and N.L. Komarova. 2005. Computational Biology of Cancer: Lecture Notes and Mathematical Modeling. World Sci. Publ., Singapore
- Wodarz, D. and N.L. Komarova. 2014. Dynamics of Cancer: Mathematical Foundations of Oncology. World Sci. Publ., Singapore
Reviews series:
- Advances in Cancer Research
- Cancer and Metastasis Reviews
- Cancer Reviews Online (only online, www.cancerreviews.org)
- Cancer and Metastasis Reviews
- Nature Reviews Cancer
