Genomic and precision medicine. Oncology /
Oncology
[edited by] Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Huntington F. Willard, John H. Strickler, Matthew S. McKinney.
- Third edition.
- 1 online resource (xix, 357 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Revised edition of: Genomic and personalized medicine / edited by Geoffrey S. Ginsburg and Huntington F. Willard. Second edition. 2013.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction and overview of cancer precision medicine -- From data to knowledge: an introduction to biomedical informatics -- The functional genome: epigenetics and epigenomics -- Clinical decision support and molecular tumor boards -- Family health history and health risk assessment in oncology -- Lymphomas: molecular subsets and advances in therapeutics -- Precision medicine in myeloid neoplasms/acute leukemias -- Lung cancer -- Breast cancer -- Epithelial ovarian cancer -- Endometrial cancer -- Colorectal cancer -- Hepatic and bile duct cancers -- Biomarker-directed therapy for pancreatic cancer -- Esophageal and gastric cancer -- Prostate Cancer -- Genomics and precision medicine: kidney cancer -- Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma -- Melanoma -- Precision cancer immunotherapy.
"Genomic and Precision Medicine: Oncology, Third Edition focuses on the applications of genome discovery as research points to personalized cancer therapies. Each chapter is organized to cover the application of genomics and personalized medicine tools and technologies to a) Risk Assessment and Susceptibility, b) Diagnosis and Prognosis, c) Pharmacogenomics and Precision Therapeutics, and d) Emerging and Future Opportunities in the field"--