This book aims to assemble the only available rigorous, yet broadly accessible introduction to this new and exciting field. Oncogenomics: Molecular Approaches to Cancer is approachable by basic scientists, practitioners, and other health professionals required to familiarize themselves with the tremendous impact of genomics and proteomics on cancer research. Clearly written chapters offer reviews of state of the art topics such as molecular classification, early detection, SNPs in cancer, data mining, tissue microarrays, protein and antibody arrays, and drug targets.

Contributors.Preface.Second I: Introduction.1. At the Precarious Cusp of Oncogenomics (Charles Brenner).Second II: Molecular Profiling in Cancer: DNA, RNA andProtein.2. Genome-Wide Searches for Mutations in Human Cancer (MichaelR. Stratton, P. Andrew Futreal, and Richard Wooster).3. Molecular Cytogenetics: Increasing Resolution UsingArray-Based CGH (Anne Kallioniemi).4. SNPs and Functional Polymorphisms in Cancer (Penelope E.Bonnen and David L. Nelson).5. Expression Profiling of Breast Cancer: From MolecularPortraits to Clinical Utility (Therese Sørlie, Anne-LiseBørresen-Dale, Per E. Lønning, Patrick O. Brown, andDavid Botstein).6. Classifying Hereditary Cancers and Phenocopies of HereditaryCancers Using Expression Arrays (Mary B. Daly, Alicia Parlanti, andDavid Duggan).7. Linking Drugs and Genes: Pharmacogenomics,Pharmacoproteomics, Bioinformatics, and the NCI-60 (John N.Weinstein).8. Tissue Microanalysis: Profiling Cancer Stages (Michael A.Tangrea and Michael R. Emmert-Buck).9. Proteomic s in Bladder Cancer (Julio E. Celis, Irina Gromova,Fritz Rank and Pavel Gromov).Second III: Model Systems.10. Chemical and Genetic Methods to Validate Targets inNonmammalian Organisms (Tia M. Maiolatesi and Charles Brenner).11. Mouse Models of Cancer (Debrah M. Thompson, Louise van derWeyden, Patrick J. Biggs, Yeun-Jun Chung and Allan Bradley).12. Genome-Wide Modifier Screens: How the Genetics of CancerPenetrance May Shape the Future of Prevention and Treatment (LindaD. Siracusa, Karen A. Silverman, Revati Koratkar, Marina Markovaand Arthur M. Buchberg).Second IV: Molecularly Targeted Drugs.13. Protein Kinases as Targets in Cancer Therapy: Validated andEmerging Approaches (Paul Nghiem, Yong-son Kim and Stuart L.Schreiber).14. Ras Superfamily-Directed Compounds (George C.Prendergast).15. Clinomics: Post-Genomic Cancer Care (Daniel D. Von Hoff,Haiyong Han, and David Bearss).Part V: Conclusion).16. Oncogenomics and the NCI Director's Vision for 2015(Andrew C. von Eschenbach).Index.