Description
Cancer Biology: How Science Works
📘 2021 edition · 2021
Explore how changes in genes, epigenetic regulation, and the cellular environment contribute to cancer. This focused textbook follows the biological processes behind tumor development, linking molecular mechanisms with broader concepts in oncology.
📚 Inside this eBook
- Oncogenes, signal transduction, and tumor suppressor genes
- Multistep tumorigenesis and genome instability
- Cancer genomics, epigenomics, and aging
- Tumor microenvironment, angiogenesis, metastasis, and cachexia
- Cancer immunity and the scientific architecture of cancer therapies
🔎 Why add it to your reading list?
The progression from foundational concepts to cancer immunity and therapeutic strategies makes the book suitable for a planned study sequence. It also offers a framework for revisiting the science behind more clinically focused oncology references.
👩⚕️ Who is it for?
Medical and biomedical science students, oncology trainees, researchers, and healthcare professionals reviewing the biological foundations of cancer.
📖 Book details
- Authors / editors: Carsten Carlberg and Eunike Velleuer
- Edition: 2021 edition
- Publication year: 2021
- Publisher: Springer
- ISBN: 9783030756994
- Format: English-language PDF eBook



