Cancer Precursors

Download or read book Cancer Precursors written by Eduardo L. Franco and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancer Precursors is a groundbreaking, multidisciplinary text containing a comprehensive overview of methodological issues associated with the study of pre-cancerous conditions, as well as reviews of the contributions of descriptive, analytical, and molecular epidemiological research to knowledge about cancer precursors at specific anatomical locations. The research focuses on the early natural history of cancers, by helping to define the etiology of precursor lesions, improving the means of detecting them either directly or via testing of surrogate biomarkers, and by elucidating the role of remote causes leading to the early onset of such lesions.