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DNA Methylation, Epigenetics and Metastasis (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
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DNA Methylation, Epigenetics and Metastasis (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
Series: Cancer Metastasis - Biology and Treatment, 7
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Most of the cancer patients die because the tumoral cells do not
"stick" in the original site, but instead detach, invade and
disseminate throughout the bloodstream to distal sites, where these
transformed cells start to proliferate and destroy again. In the
last ten years, researchers have identified a number of important
genes involved in these processes, including cadherins, laminins,
heparan sulfates, inhibitors of proteases and angiogenesis and many
others. The puzzling problem was that few genetic alterations in
these genes had been described in human tumors, despite the common
finding of down-regulation. CpG island hypermethylation-associated
silencing has come to the rescue of several of these genes and has
situated them in the forefront of the current cancer research.
However epigenetic silencing is also much more than aberrant DNA
methylation, a whole set of histone modifiers and chromatin
remodelling factors "conspire" to maintain the repression of these
tumor/metastasis suppressor genes. DNA demethylating agents and
inhibitors of histone deacetylases are the first generation of
epigenetic drugs to beat them. In this book, the current directions
in the epigenetics of cancer progression and metastasis are
comprehensively described. It is now the turn of the reader to take
care of the future. Dr Manel Esteller, Director, Cancer Epigenetics
Laboratory, Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO) mesteller@cnio.
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