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Epigenetic Cancer Therapy

  • 2nd Edition - May 3, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Steven Gray
  • Language: English

Epigenetic Cancer Therapy, Second Edition provides a comprehensive discussion of healthy and aberrant epigenetic biology, along with new discoveries to improve our understan… Read more

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Epigenetic Cancer Therapy, Second Edition provides a comprehensive discussion of healthy and aberrant epigenetic biology, along with new discoveries to improve our understanding of cancer epigenetics and therapeutics. The book encompasses large-scale intergovernmental initiatives, as well as recent findings across cancer stem cells, rational drug design, clinical trials, and chemopreventative strategies. As a whole, the work articulates and raises the profile of epigenetics as a therapeutic option in the future management of cancer. Since the publication of the first edition of this book, the field of epigenetics has undergone significant change. New epigenetic therapies have been designed and approved for clinical use.

Our knowledge of the plasticity of the epigenome in cancer and disease has expanded dramatically, with increasing evidence linking pollution to epigenetic changes in cancer development. This second edition has been fully updated to address these changes, along with promising therapeutic programs such as CRISPR/Cas9 mediated approaches, CAR-T based therapies, epigenetic priming, histone modifications, and similar, transformative advances across synthetic biology and cellular engineering.

Key features

  • Concisely summarizes the therapeutic implications of recent, large-scale epigenome studies
  • Covers new findings in the interplay between cancer stem cells (CSCs) and drug resistance, thus demonstrating that epigenetic machinery is a candidate target for the eradication of these CSCs
  • Provides a fully updated resource on new topics, including the epitranscriptome, oncohistones, single cell analysis, epigenetic priming, CRISPR therapy, CAR-T therapy, and epigenetics and pollution
  • Features chapter contributions from leading experts in the field

Readership

Researchers in genetics, molecular biology, oncology, pharmaceutical science, and clinical therapy who are interested in the role of epigenetics in cancer biology or those seeking novel means to treat cancer

Table of contents

1. Introduction

Part 1: Introduction and Key Concepts

2. DNA Methylation and Hydroxymethylation in Cancer

3. Writers, Readers, and Erasers of Epigenetic Marks

4. Oncohistones

5. MicroRNAs, epi-miRNAs and Cancer

6. Long Noncoding RNAs and Cancer

7. The Epitranscriptome

8. Mining the Epigenetic Landscape: Surface Mining or Deep Underground - Alecsandar Milosavljevic

9: Epigenetics Clocks: Concepts for Carcinogenesis10: Environmental Pollution Epigenetics and Cancer

Part 2: Epigenetics and Cancer

11. Development of Epigenetic Targeted Therapies in Hematological Malignancies: From Serendipity to Synthetic Lethality

12. Epigenetic Therapy in Lung Cancer

13. Breast Cancer Epigenetics

14. Therapeutic Applications of the Prostate Cancer Epigenome

15. Neuroblastoma

Part 3: Targeting Aberrant Epigenetics

16. Nutritional Epigenetic Regulators in the Field of Cancer: New Avenues for Chemopreventive Approaches -

17. Emerging Epigenetic Therapies- Lysine Methyltransferase/PRC Complex Inhibitors

18. Inhibitors of Jumonji C-Domain Histone Demethylases

19. Emerging Epigenetic Therapies: Lysine Acetyltransferase Inhibitors

20: Histone Deacetylases

21. Emerging Epigenetic Therapies

Part 4: Issues to Overcome/Areas of Concern

22. Genetic Intratumoral Heterogeneity

23. Challenges for single cell epigenetic analysis

24. Epigenetics Underpinning DNA Damage Repair

25. Epigenetics of Cisplatin Resistance

26. Therapeutically Targeting Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer Stem Cells

Part 5: Future Directions: Translation to the Clinic

27. Personalized Epigenetic Therapy-Chemosensitivity Testing

28. Personalized Therapy-Epigenetic Profiling as Predictors of Prognosis and Response

29. Epigenetic Priming - Fact or Fallacy

30. CRISPR and epigenetics

31. Epigenetics and CAR-T

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 3, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editor

SG

Steven Gray

Steven Gray is a Senior Clinical Scientist and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Thoracic Oncology Research Group, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences at St. James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Clinical Scientist and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Thoracic Oncology Research Group, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St. James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

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