Overview
- Seeks to provide both clinicians and scientists with technical information on a wide range of approaches available in the field
- Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results
- Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts
Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology (MIMB, volume 1102)
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In Molecular Diagnostics for Melanoma: Methods and Protocols, expert researchers and clinicians in the field of melanoma provide updated information on biomarkers and assays for diagnosis, prognosis, and assays predicting response to treatment for routine testing. The focus of the volume is on biomarkers with established clinical validity rather than those on early discovery stage. With additional in-depth discussion of the molecular biology and pathology of melanoma, treatment options in adjuvant and metastatic setting, and implications of biomarker testing for clinical management of melanoma patients.
Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include extensive introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and key tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Comprehensive and practical, Molecular Diagnostics for Melanoma: Methods and Protocols seeks to provide both clinicians and scientists with technical information and extensive background information on the wide ranging approaches available in the field of diagnostics of melanoma.
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Keywords
Table of contents (37 protocols)
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Clinical Challenges and Current Status of Treatment of Melanoma
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Biomarkers for Prediction of Response and Resistance to Treatment
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Biomarkers for Classification, Diagnosis, and Prognosis
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This substantive book is a compilation of focused reviews and laboratory protocols for biomarkers associated with melanoma and related targeted therapies. … This would be useful to anyone interested in melanoma, from clinicians wanting an update on promising molecular targets for melanoma treatment to researchers wanting detailed protocols for diagnostic or treatment monitoring assays. … If you are working in melanoma research or treating patients with melanoma, you will very much appreciate this book.” (Valerie L. Ng, Doody’s Book Reviews, March, 2014)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Molecular Diagnostics for Melanoma
Book Subtitle: Methods and Protocols
Editors: Magdalena Thurin, Francesco M. Marincola
Series Title: Methods in Molecular Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-727-3
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Springer Protocols
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-62703-726-6Published: 21 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-6038-5Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-62703-727-3Published: 20 November 2013
Series ISSN: 1064-3745
Series E-ISSN: 1940-6029
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 712
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 94 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cancer Research, Oncology