Cancer Cytogenetics

Cancer Cytogenetics,3rd Edition, offers a comprehensive, expanded, and up-to-date review of recent dramatic advances in this area and incorporates a vast amount of new data from the latest basic and clinical investigations. Edited by two leading experts, and now involving a new panel of international experts, the book offers an authoritative description of neoplastic processes at the chromosomal level of genomic organization. Researchers in cytogenetics, medical and molecular genetics, cellular and molecular biology, cancer research, clinical oncology, and hematology will find this reference both thorough and authoritative.Table of ContentPreface vii Contributors ix 1. A New Approach to an Old Problem 1 Sverre Heim and Felix Mitelman 2. Cytogenetic Methods 9 David Gisselsson 3. Cytogenetic Nomenclature 17 Sverre Heim and Felix Mitelman 4. Nonrandom Chromosome Abnormalities in Cancer-An Overview 25 Sverre Heim and Felix Mitelman 5. Acute Myeloid Leukemia 45 Bertil Johansson and Christine J. Harrison 6. Myelodysplastic Syndromes 141 Harold J. Olney and Michelle M. Le Beau 7. Chronic Myeloid Leukemia 179 Thoas Fioretos and Bertil Johansson 8. Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms 209 Peter Vandenberghe, Lucienne Michaux, and Anne Hagemeijer 9. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia 233 Christine J. Harrison and Bertil Johansson 10. Mature B- and T-Cell Neoplasms and Hodgkin Lymphoma 297 Reiner Siebert 11. Tumors of the Upper Aerodigestive Tract 375 Mihaela Avramut and Susanne M. Gollin 12. Tumors of the Lung 415 Penny Nymark, Eeva Kettunen, and Sakari Knuutila 13. Tumors of the Digestive Tract 429 Georgia Bardi and Sverre Heim 14. Tumors of the Urinary Tract 463 Paola Dal Cin and Azra H. Ligon 15. Tumors of the Breast 493 Manuel R. Teixeira, Nikos Pandis, and Sverre Heim 16. Tumors of the Female Genital Organs 519 Francesca Micci and Sverre Heim 17. Tumors of the Male Genital Organs 557 Manuel R. Teixeira and Sverre Heim 18. Tumors of Endocrine Glands 577 Jorn Bullerdiek and David Gisselsson 19. Tumors of the Nervous System 597 Aaron M. Bender, Fausto J. Rodriguez, Gobinda Sarkar, and Robert B. Jenkins 20. Tumors of the Eye 621 Karen Sisley 21. Tumors of the Skin 641 Fredrik Mertens and Sverre Heim 22. Tumors of Bone 655 Fredrik Mertens and Nils Mandahl 23. Soft Tissue Tumors 675 Nils Mandahl and Fredrik Mertens Index 713