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Prostate cancer is the second most common type of cancer and affects millions of individuals worldwide. This volume reviews our understanding of the disease, its progression, and new therapeutic approaches.

Topics include:

-Anatomy and Histology of the Human and Murine Prostate

-Prostate Cancer Genetics

-Prostate Cancer Disparities by Race and Ethnicity: From Nucleotide to Neighborhood

-Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells

-Epigenetics

-New Opportunities for Targeting the Androgen Receptor in Prostate Cancer

-Chemoprevention in...

The Chinese shipping industry is a particularly prominent industry and has rapidly expanded over the last decade. Amazingly, literature on the subject is scarce and this is the first book to focus on it specifically. Bringing together a team of well-known shipping, logistics, economics and political science scholars from the Far East, Europe and the Americas, the volume provides an up-to-date overview of the Chinese shipping industry and its place in international shipping. The contributors analyze and discuss all the relevant major business issues, including marketing, finance, the...

Cutting edge in its approach and international in its authorship, this fourth monograph in a series sponsored by the Chinese Language Teachers Association features eight research studies that explore a variety of themes, topics, and perspectives important to a variety of stakeholders in the Chinese language learning community.

Through numerous discussions with colleagues it became apparent that the time was right to begin a series of workshop-like meetings on myeloid tumorigenesis. Myeloid tumors are the nonlymphocytic tumors of the hematopoietic system which include tumors of the neutrophilic, monocytic, erythrocytic, basophilic (mast cell) and megakaryocytic lineages. Pioneering studies in myeloid tumorigenesis were initially made in chickens with the discovery of retroviruses that induce various kinds of myeloid tumors acutely (myelocytomatosis, myeloblastosis, and erythroblastosis). These avian retroviruses...