Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. The Pathology of Lung Cancer
(Niamh Leonard, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland)
Chapter 2. Introduction to Lung Cancer, its Epidemiology and Diagnosis
(Stephen A. Deppen and Eric L. Grogan, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, TN, USA and others)
Chapter 3. The Effect of Smoking Habit Intensity, Occupation, Diet and Lung Cancer Risk in Males
(Agustina Bertola Compagnucci, María S. Dagatti and Stella M. Pezzotto, Instituto de Inmunología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina)
Chapter 4. Lung Cancer: Treatment in Early Stage
(Miriam Méndez, Ana Custodio and Mariano Provencio, Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain and others)
Chapter 5. Lung Cancer: Treatment in Advanced Stages
(Miriam Méndez, Ana Custodio and Mariano Provencio, Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain and others)
Chapter 6. Management of Stage III N2 NSCLC
(Mark J. Krasna, Meridian Cancer Care, Neptune, NJ, USA)
Chapter 7. Targeted Therapies in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
(Susan Heavey, Ken O’Byrne and Kathy Gately, Department of Clinical Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland)
Chapter 8. Molecular Mechanisms of Cisplatin Resistance in Lung Cancer
(Martin P. Barr and Ken O’Byrne, Thoracic Oncology Research Group, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St. James’s Hospital and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Chapter 9. Inflammation in Lung Carcinogenesis
(Anne-Marie Baird, Steven G. Gray and Ken O’Byrne, Department of Clinical Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland)
Chapter 10. The Link between Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Lung Cancer: Novel Molecular Insights
(Nikoletta Rovina and Fotis Vlastos, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Chapter 11. Diagnosis, Treatment and Follow-up of Neoplastic Pericardial Disease in Lung Cancer
(Chiara Lestuzzi, Massimiliano Berretta, Alessandra Bearz and Witold Tomkowski, Cardiology, CRO, National Cancer Institute, Aviano (PN), Italy and others)
Chapter 12. The Role of Claudin Proteins in Lung Tumorigenesis
(Zhe Lu, Qun Lu, Lei Ding and Yan-Hua Chen, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA and others)
Chapter 13. The Role of the Arachidonic Acid Signalling Pathway in NSCLC Development and Progression: Novel Targets for Therapeutic Intervention
(Mary-Clare Cathcart, Ken O’Byrne and Graham P. Pidgeon, Department of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland)
Index
