Cancer Detection and Diagnosis: A Handbook of Emerging Technologies (PDF)

by Miguel Ossandon (ed.), Ben Prickril (ed.), Avraham Rasooly (ed.)

Emerging technologies for cancer detection and diagnosis are providing more and more advance warning of pathologies of clinical significance. Research devoted to cancers are revealing new ways of finding and treating these complex diseases. This volume reviews a broad array of new technologies for cancer detection and diagnosis. While there are several clinical books describing cancer diagnosis, and general molecular analytical technologies, these books are not focused on cancer detection and diagnosis. The aim of this book is to describe emerging cancer detection and diagnosis technologies.
Key Features

Presents myriad new experimental cancer detection technologies
Describes technology so the reader may conduct similar analyses
Outlines clinical applications of technology for specific cancer and summarizes results
Discusses pitfalls and limitations, future trends and potential technological developments