Cancer Genetics and Psychotherapy

by Parvin Mehdipour

Overview

The aim of this book is to provide the readers with the most comprehensive and latest accounts of research and development in this field by emphasizing on the manner of relation between doctors and cancer patients in direction of improving the patients’ style of life. This book, partly, will deal with psychotherapy by considering cancer patients, benefits, hazards and also social impacts including life style. The social supports as the key and influential paradigms will be challenged as a comparative insight by considering the global unity in order to provide a reasonable model to improve the interaction between cancer and psychological nest.

In this book, the real stories of cancer patient will be also provided.

The initial insight of sections includes:

1)    Brief classifications and key points of clinical and histopatological aspects of each organ.

2)    Brief view of genetic alterations in each organ.

3)    Therapeutic aspects.

4)    Brief classifications and key points of Psychology in cancer.

5) The interactions of clinical aspects with psychological field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319645483
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	09/21/2017
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	1170
Sales rank:	652,387
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Professor Parvin Mehdipour has mainly focused on Cancer Genetics by considering the multi-disciplinary manner in her academic and research life through 34 years in Tehran University of Medical Sciences. She was inspired by puzzling the road maps of Genetic and tumor biology to find the directions and cross roads in cancer and cross-talk between the cancer cells. She had scientific links with DKFZ, Institutes of Human Genetics and Institute of Medical Genetics in Erlangen-Nuerenberg, Bonn, Humboldt/berlin, Dresden- and Manchester- University. She has initiated a cancer project on leukemia at Department of Genetics, Royal Liverpool hospital, University of Liverpool as her PhD thesis. Since then she was exploring on solid tumors to prove the cancer evolution and hypotheses in different cancers including breast and brain tumors and also tracing cancer biomarkers. Her aims and focal interests during last 20 years included early detection through Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) in cancer journey and innovating modeling of the metastatic cancer. The final destination of her task is personalized cancer managements and drug innovation. Her interests include painting, writing and nutrigenomics.

Table of Contents

Preface.-Psycho - Oncology: The Relationship Between Psychology, Personality and Cancer.- Psychotherapy in Cancer.- New Developments in Psycho-Oncology.- Psychiatric aspects of breast cancer: Emphasized on Psychiatric and surgical diagnosis and treatments.- Cancer Genetics at a glance:  The comprehensive insights.- The Relevance of Genetic Factors in Tumor Therapy and the Underlying Pharmacogenetic Principles.- Genetic counselling for cancer susceptibility.- Cancer, Psychotherapy and the Airway.- Female Reproductive System and Cancer.- Cancers of the endocrine system.- A Comprehensive Look at Oromaxillofacial and Laryngopharyngeal Cancers.- Gastrointestinal cancers.- Genetic and cellular complexity of brain tumors.- Genetics, Hematologic and Psychological Aspects of Leukemia.- Cancer Stem Cell: from Conjecture to Reality.- Cancer Immunotherapy: Friends or foe of mental health?- Challenges of {zur Hausen, 1973 #109}Endocrine Therapy in Breast Cancer.- Skin Cancer: Genetics, immunology, treatments, and psychological care.- Alternative or Complementary Medicine: History and Legacy.- Pharmacotherapy of cancer from the perspective of traditional Iranian medicine.- Nutrigenomics, Epigenetics and Pain in Cancer.- Metastatic breast cancer at a glance: Scenarios of BC Brain- and BC Bone- metastasis by illustrations.- New three-dimensional NLS-bio- feedback bio-resonance approaches in site specific diagnosis of cancer.- Human cancer cell lines: potential to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of anticancer agents.- Biostatistics Methods in Cancer Research: Cluster analysis of gene expression data.- Horizon of Cancer Genetics and Psycho-Art.- Index