Halocynthiaxanthin and fucoxanthinol isolated from Halocynthia roretzi induce apoptosis in human leukemia, breast and colon cancer cells

Product DescriptionThis digital document is a journal article from Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: The sea squirt Halocynthia roretzi metabolizes fucoxanthin, and subsequently [...]

FINDING STRENGTH: A Mother and Daughter’s Story of Childhood Cancer

Product DescriptionProfessor Juanne Clarke has spent her career as a medical sociologist, exploring the public health system and the personal health systems of individuals. One of her books examined how women with breast cancer deal with diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Then her 17-year old daughter Lauren was diagnosed with leukemia, and the theories and paradigms [...]

Experimental Leukemia and Mammary Cancer: Induction, Prevention, Cure

Product DescriptionCharles Brenton Huggins won the Nobel prize in 1966 for his extensive work in cancer research. He has spent fifty years at the laboratory bench exploring the nature of this disease in an attempt to understand and control it. In this volume, based almost exclusively on experiments conducted over the past twenty years at [...]

Chemotherapy: Arsphenamine, History of cancer chemotherapy, Acute myeloid leukemia, Alkylating antineoplastic agent, Anthracycline, Monoclonal antibodies, Paclitaxel, Docetaxel, Doxorubicin

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The Cancer Code: How a Journey through Leukemia Led to Software that Changed the Way People Work

Product DescriptionWhen all attempts to cure his life-threatening illness fail, a young computer programmer decides to leave behind a legacy; software that, by reflecting the way the human minds works, brings tremendous gains in creativity and productivity. Working from an isolation room of a German cancer ward, the man writes his digital epitaph—then survives. Undaunted [...]

Bioinformatics in Cancer and Cancer Therapy

Product DescriptionBioinformatics can be loosely defined as the collection, classification, storage, and analysis of biochemical and biological information using computers and mathematical algorithms. Although no single person or group started the field wholly on their own, Temple Smith, Ph.D., a professor at Boston University, is generally credited with coining the term. Bioinformatics represents a marriage [...]

Prompt, Accurate Diagnosis of Pediatric Cancer and Leukemia for Pediatricians, Orthopedists, and Family Practitioners

Product DescriptionA practical guide for the primary care pediatricians, general practitioner, family practitioners, and orthopedists need to help ensure prompt accurate diagnosis of cancer or leukemia in children. Provides comprehensive, practical information and diagnosis techniques for the most common conditions seen in children that could result in a cancer or leukemia diagnosis. Also provided are [...]

Human Cell Culture, Volume III: Cancer Cell Lines, Part 3: Leukemias and Lymphomas

Product DescriptionThis book describes all human leukemia-lymphoma cell lines that have been established and that grow continuously under standardised in vitro conditions. These lines are derived from cells belonging to all the major hematopoietic cell lineages, i.e. B- and T-lymphocytes, natural killer cells, granulocytic cells and megakaryocytic cells. The clinical data, the culture conditions and [...]

Nucleoside Analogs Cancer Therapy

Product DescriptionOffering the most current and complete coverage of nucleoside analog activity in oncology and hematology, this single-source volume includes topics from pharmacology to previously unpublished clinical findings on the pivotal role of fludarabine, cladribine, and pentostatin in the management of diseases, such as chronic lymphocytic and hairy cell leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, membranous nephropathy, and [...]

When Cancer Calls … Say Yes to Life: The Story of One Man’s Journey through Leukemia

Product Description“Rusty Hammer is an inspiration … We have watched his battle with admiration, for it is a tribute to the human spirit, and to the dignity and courage of a good man.” —Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, City of Los Angeles Shortly after his fiftieth birthday in 2003, Rusty Hammer’s [...]