Overview
- Discusses the systemic effects of metastatic disease and their impact on the host
- Highlights cachexia, a debilitating systemic consequence of advanced cancer, associated with poor patient survival
- Summarizes the molecular signaling pathways that drive cachexia
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About this book
This textbook discusses the systemic consequences of cancer, covering a range of topics from tumor-promoting systemic effects to the development of cachexia, as summarized in the introductory chapter 1.
Part I of this textbook focuses on tumor-promoting systemic effects and begins with a chapter on how tumor-derived extracellular vesicles and particles lay the foundation for future metastases (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 discusses how metastatic cells that have colonized the bone impact the local bone microenvironment, neighboring muscles, and host physiology. Chapter 4 summarizes the available strategies for targeting metastatic cancer and emphasizes the need to incorporate a systemic view of the disease. Following this overview of the systemic effects of cancer progression, Part II of the textbook discusses cancer-induced cachexia, a debilitating systemic effect of advanced cancer. Chapters 5-7 examine the key signaling pathways (interleukin-6/GP130, NF-kB, and muscle proteolysis) that drive the development of cancer cachexia. Chapters 8 and 9 in Part III of this textbook explore how toxicities from anti-cancer therapy are associated with the onset of cachexia in cancer patients, and provide insight into potential approaches to simultaneously target both cancer and cachexia. Chapters 10 and 11 (Part IV) conclude this textbook by outlining promising approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of cachexia as well as strategies to prevent the development of cachexia through exercise.
An understanding of the systemic effects of cancer is essential for the design of effective anti-cancer and anti-cachexia treatment strategies. As such, this textbook provides key information for both students and scientists engaged in cancer research and oncology.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Systemic Regulation in Metastatic Disease
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Cachexia: A Debilitating Systemic Effect of Cancer
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Therapy-Induced Muscle Wasting
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Preventing and Targeting Cachexia in Cancer
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Swarnali Acharyya is a cancer biologist who performed her postdoctoral training at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and joined Columbia University as an Assistant Professor in 2014. Her laboratory investigates how metastatic tumors induce systemic changes in distant organs, such as skeletal muscle, and how these changes cause a debilitating syndrome in advanced cancer patients known as cachexia. This textbook aims to provide readers with an understanding of the systemic regulation and crosstalk between tumors and distant organs and its impact on the prognosis and treatment of advanced cancer patients.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Systemic Effects of Advanced Cancer
Book Subtitle: A Textbook on Cancer-Associated Cachexia
Editors: Swarnali Acharyya
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09518-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07272-7Published: 19 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09789-8Published: 19 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09518-4Published: 21 September 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 203
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cancer Research, Oncology, Immunology, Cell Biology