Physical Sciences and Engineering Advances in Life Sciences and Oncology: A WTEC Global Assessment

✍ Scribed by Paul Janmey, Daniel Fletcher, Sharon Gerecht, Ross Levine, Parag Mallick, Owen McCarty, Lance Munn, Cynthia Reinhart-King (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 435
• Series: Science Policy Reports
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents an Assessment of Physical Sciences and Engineering Advances in Life Sciences and Oncology (APHELION) by a panel of experts. It covers the status and trends of applying physical sciences and engineering principles to oncology research in leading laboratories and organizations in Europe and Asia.

The book elaborates on the six topics identified by the panel that have the greatest potential to advance understanding and treatment of cancer, each covered by a chapter in the book. The study was sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institute of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the NIH in the US under a cooperative agreement with the World Technology Evaluation Center (WTEC).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxvi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Complexity and Information: Cancer as a Multi-Scale Complex Adaptive System....Pages 5-29
Mimicking the Microenvironment....Pages 31-48
Cancer Cell Mechanics....Pages 49-71
Fluid Mechanics and Transport in Tumors....Pages 73-88
The Dynamics of Cell Motility....Pages 89-110
Devices and New Diagnostic Principles....Pages 111-130
Clinical Perspective....Pages 131-136
Back Matter....Pages 137-403

✦ Subjects

Biophysics and Biological Physics; Oncology; Biomedical Engineering; Medical and Radiation Physics; Biochemistry, general; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity