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Advances in Rapid Sex-Steroid Action

New Challenges and New Chances in Breast and Prostate Cancers

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  • © 2012

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  • This volume provides an up-to-date review of recently discovered rapid action of sex steroid hormones

  • Recent years have seen the discovery of significant numbers of master proteins in breast and prostate cancers

  • Further development in this field might create new opportunities in breast and prostate cancer treatments

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Breast Cancer

  2. Breast cancer

  3. Prostate Cancer

  4. Prostate cancer

  5. New Tools for Steroid Receptor Analysis and Regulatory Networks

  6. New tools for steroid receptor analysis and regulatory networks

About this book

Breast and prostate cancers are both hormone-dependent, at least in some stages of their progression. Hormonal manipulation represents an important therapeutic approach. Although most of breast and prostate cancers initially respond to hormone therapy, most tumors reinitiate to growth. Finally, hormone-resistant and metastatic breast and prostate cancers may develop. Thus, the challenge is the dissection of mechanisms by which steroid receptor signaling pathways continue to influence cell growth and invasiveness. Compelling evidence indicates that steroid hormones elicit non-genomic responses in extra-nuclear compartment of target cells. In this cellular location, steroid-coupled receptors rapidly recruit signaling effectors or scaffold proteins and activate multiple pathways leading to proliferation, survival, migration and invasiveness. The immediate challenge is the dissection of key events regulating the steroid response of target tissues to prevent progression and improve treatment of breast and prostate cancers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Naples, Naples, Italy

    Gabriella Castoria

  • Department of Pathology, II University of Naples, Naples, Italy

    Antimo Migliaccio

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advances in Rapid Sex-Steroid Action

  • Book Subtitle: New Challenges and New Chances in Breast and Prostate Cancers

  • Editors: Gabriella Castoria, Antimo Migliaccio

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1764-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-1763-7Published: 14 December 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8935-2Published: 03 March 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-1764-4Published: 15 December 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 270

  • Topics: Cancer Research, Endocrinology, Biomedicine general

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