Tumor Microenvironment and Cellular Stress

Constantinos Koumenis, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor, Vice Chair and Research Division Director and Co-Leader, Radiation Biology & Imaging Program at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine. Amato Giacca,Ph.D., is a Professor and Director of the Department of Radiation Oncology, Leader of Radation Biology and Molecular Therapeutics Program at the Stanford Cancer Center. Ester Hammond Ph.D., is a Junior Group Leader at Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology at Oxford University.

• Introduction.- Hypoxia and metabolism in cancer.- Hypoxia and Regulation of Cancer Cell Stemness.- Hypoxia-mediated metastasis.- Escape Mechanisms from Antiangiogenic Therapy: An Immune Cell’s Perspective.- Hypoxic VDAC1: a potential mitochondrial marker for cancer therapy.- Hypoxia directed drug strategies to target the tumor microenvironment.- Radiotherapy and the Tumor Microenvironment: Mutual Influence and Clinical Implications.- Autophagy and cell death to target cancer cells: exploiting synthetic lethality as cancer therapeutic.- Intratumoral Hypoxia as the Genesis of Genetic Instability and Clinical Prognosis in Prostate Cancer.- miR-210: Fine-Tuning the Hypoxic Response.- The role of complement in tumor growth.- Imaging angiogenesis, inflammation and metastasis in the tumor microenvironment with magnetic resonance imaging.- Index.