Preface ....................................................... vii
Abbreviations ................................................ xiii
Chapter I Role of Sex Steroids in Bladder Cancer ............. 1
Veronica Tovar-Sepulveda, Guru Sonpavde and
Carolyn L. Smith
Chapter II Molecular Players and Cellular Pathways
in Estrogen-Modulated Breast Cancer ............... 25
Emily Powell, Wen Xie, Wei Xu
Chapter III Sex Hormone Receptors and Epigenetics in Breast
Cancer ............................................ 63
Makoto Nagahara and Dave S.B. Hoon
Chapter IV Role of Estrogen in the Development, Prevention
and Intervention of Cervical Cancer ............... 79
William W. Au
Chapter V Estrogen and Colorectal Cancer .................... 87
Wenbin Liang and Colin W. Binns
Chapter VI Sex Hormones and Esophageal Cancer ............... 105
N. Ananthakrishnan, R. Kalayarasan, Vikram Kate
Chapter VII Estrogen in Regulating the Gender Disparity
of Hepatocellular Carcinoma ...................... 125
Shiou-Hwei Yeh
Chapter VIII Lung Cancer Sex Differences ...................... 149
Jerry Y. Hsu and Heather A. Wakelee
Chapter IX The Role of Estrogen in the Development and
Treatment of Ovarian Cancer ...................... 171
Simon P. Langdon, Graeme Walker, Dana Faratian,
David J. Harrison
Chapter X Estrogen Receptor Implications in Human
Pancreatic Cancer ................................ 187
Srivani Konduri and Roderich E. Schwarz
Chapter XI Estrogens and Estrogen Receptors in the
Prostate Development, Estrogenization, and
Carcinogenesis ................................... 209
Ming Chen and Shuyuan Yeh
Chapter XII Estrogen and Thyroid Cancer ...................... 235
Dong Yeob Shin, Eun Jig Lee
Index ......................................................... 249
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