Breast Cancer Metastasis and Drug Resistance

1. Breast Cancer Stem Cells and miRNAs

   • Saurabh Singh

   Pages 367-383

2. Breast Cancer Stem Cells: Responsible for Therapeutic Resistance and Relapse?

   • Hasan Korkaya, Fayaz Malik

   Pages 385-398

3. MicroRNAs in Breast Cancer Research: Progress and Promise

   • Alia Ahmed, Ashhar S. Ali, Shadan Ali, Aamir Ahmad, Philip A. Philip, Fazlul H. Sarkar

   Pages 399-413

4. Erratum to: Bone Metastasis of Breast Cancer

   • Takae M. Brewer, Richard L. Theriault, Naoto T. Ueno

   Pages E1-E1

​This volume comprehensively covers recent prrogress in breast cancer research. In an effort to successfully treat breast cancer, it is imperative to a) fully understand the disease with all its heterogeneity, b) understand the factors that influence the metastasis of breast cancer to distant organs making it lethal and c) understand the underlying processes that lead to the phenomenon of drug-resistance making the disease particularly incurable. The book explores all of these issues, including the phenomenon of epithelial-mesenchymal-transition, cancer stem cells as well as microRNAs in an attempt to better understand the disease in connection to its heterogeneity/metastasis/drug-resistance as well as to propose novel signaling pathways for therapeutic intervention. The profiling of tumors to molecularly classify breast cancers is also investigated so that customized targeted therapies can be developed.  ​

• bone metastasis
• breast cancer statistics
• breast cancer stem cells
• tamoxifen
• triple negative breast cancer
• antibacterial drug resistance

• School of Medicine, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

  Aamir Ahmad

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