Cancer Diagnostics with DNA Microarrays offers cancer researchers in private, pharmacologic, and governmental institutions, biomedical statisticians, and practicing oncologists concise, thoughtfully authored guidance on the use of microarray data and analysis as clinical tools.

Features:

• Uniquely deals with direct clinical application of microarray data to oncology diagnosis, leading to more effective diagnosis of and clearer treatment regimens for a wide range of human cancers
• Offers clinicians summary presentation of state-of-the-art science of DNA microarrays
• Each chapter includes bibliographic and further reading suggestions
• Easily accessible, assuming no special training in statistics or bioinformatics

Contents

1. Introduction to DNA Microarray Technology
2. Image Analysis
3. Basic Data Analysis
4. Visualization by Reduction of Dimensionality
5. Cluster Analysis
6. Molecular Classifiers for Cancer
7. Survival Analysis
8. Meta-Analysis
9. The Design of Probes
10. Software Issues and Data Formats
11. Breast Cancer
12. Leukemia
13. Lymphoma
14. Lung Cancer
15. Bladder Cancer
16. Colon Cancer
17. Ovarian Cancer
18. Prostate Cancer
19. Melanoma
20. Brain Tumors
21. Organ or Tissue Specific Classification
22. Sample Collection and Stability

Index

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