Female Sex Hormones and Cancers
George G. Chen (Editor)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Series: Cancer Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatments, Women’s Issues
BISAC: MED062000
Details
Female sex hormones are produced in both females and males. They influence almost every aspect of human physiological functions, activities and behaviours. Disturbance in female sex hormones may result in variety of disorders including cancer. Attention is usually focused on female sex hormone-related cancers in reproductive organs in females such as breast, cervix and ovary. However, advances in science have discovered that female sex hormones also have a great impact on cancers in non-reproductive organs and tissues such as colon, esophagus and thyroid in both men and women. This new book describes and summarizes the up-to-date information on an emerging topic of female sex hormones and cancer. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical)
Preface
Contributors
Chapter 1. Role of Sex Steroids in Bladder Cancer
Chapter 2. Molecular Players and Cellular Pathways in Estrogen-Modulated Breast Cancer
Chapter 3. Sex Hormone Receptors and Epigenetics in Breast Cancer
Chapter 4. Role of Estrogen in the Development, Prevention and Intervention of Cervical Cancer
Chapter 5. Estrogen and Colorectal Cancer
Chapter 6. Sex Hormones and Esophageal Cancer
Chapter 7. Estrogen in Regulating the Gender Disparity of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Chapter 8. Lung Cancer Sex Differences
Chapter 9. The Role of Estrogen in the Development and Treatment of Ovarian Cancer
Chapter 10. Estrogen Receptor Implications in Human Pancreatic Cancer
Chapter 11. Estrogens and Estrogen Receptors in the Prostate Development, Estrogenization, and Carcinogenesis
Chapter 12. Estrogen and Thyroid Cancer
Index
