Cancer and the Environment:

Gene-Environment Interactions

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Size: 166 pages, 6x9

Publication Year:2002

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Samuel Wilson, Lovell Jones, Christine Couseens, and Kathi Hanna, Editors, Roundtable on Environment Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine.
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Front Matter	i-xx
Summary	1-6	(skim)
1. Charge to Participants and Workshop Objectives	7-10	(skim)
2. Keynote Addresses	11-24	(skim)
3. The Links between Environmental Factors, Genetics, and the Development of Cancer	25-35	(skim)
4. Gene-Environment Interaction in Special Populations	36-45	(skim)
5. Gene-Environment Interaction in Site-specific Cancers	46-59	(skim)
6. Special Address: A Novel Approach to Cancer Treatment Based on Immune Stimulations and Other Environmental Approaches	60-62	(skim)
7. Cancer and the Environment: A View from the Hill	63-64	(skim)
8. Moving Forward	65-69	(skim)
Abstracts of Talks	70-107	(skim)
References	108-118	(skim)
Appendix A Glossary	119-122	(skim)
Appendix B Workshop Agenda	123-127	(skim)
Appendix C Speakers and Panelists	128-130	(skim)
Appendix D Workshop Participants	131-140	(skim)

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"The book is well written and provides an easily comprehensible overview of the growing understanding of how genetic make-up, lifestyle, and environmental exposures may result in the development of cancer. ...is engaging for those interested in this important new area of cancer management. ... Cancer and the Environment serves as provocative reading and causes readers to ponder the larger issues of health and public policy."
-- Oncology Nursing Forum, May 2004

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