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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 – Glioblastoma: Risk Factors, Diagnosis and Treatment Options (pp. 1-30)
Kyung-Sub Moon and Maciej S. Lesniak (The Brain Tumor Center, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA)
Chapter 2 – The Biology of the Interleukin-2 (IL-2)-Based Immunotherapies in Cancer and Autoimmune Disease (pp. 31-52)
André Ballesteros-Tato and Troy D. Randall (Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA)
Chapter 3 – OFF or ON: RNA Interference (RNAi) / RNA Activation (RNAa) for Cancer Therapeutics (pp. 53-66)
Sorah Yoon and John J. Rossi (Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Beckman Research, Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA)
Chapter 4 – Melanoma Progression to Metastatic Disease: The Role of the PI3K/AKT and Wnt/β-Catenin Pathways (pp. 67-104)
Jaskiran Sidhu, Geetha Venkateswaran and Sujata Persad (Department of Pediatrics Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
Chapter 5 – Mushrooms: Proteins, Polysaccharide-Peptide Complexes and Polysaccharides with Antiproliferative and Anticancer Activities (pp. 105-120)
Tzi Bun Ng, Jack Ho Wong, Randy Chi Fai Cheung, Tak Fu Tse, Timothy Tam and Helen Chan (School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China)
Chapter 6 – Low-Molecular-Weight Compounds with Anticancer Activity of Mushroom Origin (pp. 121-132)
Tzi Bun Ng and Charlene Cheuk Wing Ng (School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China)
Chapter 7 – Lifestyle and Cancer Prevention (pp. 133-148)
Hirokazu Takahashi (Gastroenterology Division, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan)
Chapter 8 – Pathology and Pathogenesis of Hodgkin‘s Lymphoma: Analysis of Its Status over a Period of Five Decades (pp. 149-184)
Dilip K. Das (Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait)
Index
