From molecular to modular tumor therapy : tumors are reconstructible communicatively evolving systems /

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Imprint:	Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2010.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 566 p.) : ill. (some col.)
Language:	English
Series:	The tumor microenvironment ; 3 Tumor microenvironment ; 3.
Subject:	Tumors. Cancer. Neoplasms -- therapy. Cancer. Tumors.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8895213

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Other authors / contributors:	Reichle, Albrecht.
ISBN:	9789048195312 (electronic bk.) 9048195314 (electronic bk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The traditional problem of the poor presentability as well as diagnostic and therapeutic practicability of individual patient care is still unresolved. The present book aims at leading the reader (cancer researchers, pharmacologists, biologists) away-in a scientifically accessible manner-from the daily conflicts between theory and practice and between the generalized and individual tumor patient, so that more personalized diagnostic and therapeutic strategies can be developed for controlling metastatic tumor disease: First, recording the systems concept of tumor biology based on rather different sciences (biochemistry, cell biology, and medical oncology) including their potential contribution to communication, then, giving reductionistically derived systems features an internal communicative context (formal-pragmatic communication theory), and finally, binding the systems features to (tumor-immanent) evolutionary processes (modularity of biochemical and cellular processes, rationalization of biologic functions)."--P. [4] of cover.
Other form:	Print version: From molecular to modular tumor therapy. Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2010 9789048195305

Table of Contents:

From Molecular to ModularTumor Therapy; Contents; Part I: Therapy-Derived Systems Biology:A Pragmatic Communication Theory; Chapter 1: Bridging Theory and Therapeutic Practice: From Generalized Disease Models to Particular Patients; Chapter 2: Tumor Systems Need to be Rendered Usable for a New Action-Theoretical Abstraction:The Starting Point for Novel Therapeutic Options; Chapter 3: Principles of Modular Tumor Therapy; Part II: Tumors Share Common Processes DuringTumor Evolution: Communicative Aspectsof a Situation's Interpretation for CreatingSystems-Directed Therapies.

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