This exciting SpringerBrief presents evidence for new ideas that will challenge several
theories of how cancer biology is understood. Cancer biology has undergone several intellectual
revolutions in the past 50 years. A mutation-centric view of cancer has given way to the tumor
microenvironment view. Reductionistic studies of one gene at a time have given way to systems
biology approaches that analyze the whole genome (omics) at the same time. However this text
combines the complex levels studying cancer at the molecular biology level endocrinology level
and transcriptomics level. What researchers are now realizing is that there is a need to
combine omics with physiology concepts in order to better understand cancer and this book will
give insight to the merging of these two fields in order to define how cancer is studied in the
future.
