Autoimmunity and cancer /Soner Şahin, PhD (editor), Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Nisantasi University, Turkey, Kenan Demir, MD (editor), Health Sciences University, Samsun Training and Research Hospital, Samsun Eğitim ve Araştırma, Hastanesi, İlkadım, Turkey.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Preface -- Introduction to autoimmunity / Çetin Kürşad Akpınar, MD, and Hasan Doğan, MD -- Introduction to cancer / Nur Ekimci Gürcan, Berfin Uzunkaya and Omer Faruk Bayrak, PhD -- Cancer immunity / Sukru Gulluoglu -- Genetics, autoimmunity, and cancer / Sevgi Durna Daştan, PhD, and İnanç Baral, DVM, PhD -- Effects of p53 and other antioncogenes on cancer / Gözde Oztan, PhD -- Effects of p53 on autoimmunity / Asli Kireçtepe Aydin, PhD -- Effects of ras and other proto-oncogenes on cancer / Ozlem Aldemir, MD -- Effects of ras and other proto-oncogenes on autoimmunity / Mehtap Şahin -- Cancer in autoimmune diseases / Ela Delikgoz Soykut, MD -- Paraneoplastic syndromes / Tuğçehan Sezer Akman -- Autoimmune diseases in cancer / Sidika Tapsin -- Autoantibodies in cancer / Nese Cabuk Celik, MD -- Cytokines and cancer / Melike Bayindir Bilgic, Gizem Inetas Yengin and Omer Faruk Bayrak, PhD -- The effect of the occupational environment by autoimmunity on cancer development / Selim Görgün, MD and Aydan Çevik Varol -- mRNA vaccines / Didem Seven, PhD, Didem Tecimel, BSc and Omer Faruk Bayrak, PhD -- Treatment of autoimmune diseases with cancer therapies and treatment of cancer with autoimmune disease therapies / Serkan Yaşar -- Index.

"The significance of autoimmune diseases increases day by day. Cancer is an important cause of mortality for which no definitive treatment has yet been found. Cancer can occur for many reasons. Studies have shown that autoimmunity underlies some types of cancer. On the contrary, antitumor immune responses may become cross-reactive with their own tissues, resulting in the development of autoimmunity. Further investigation of the relationship between autoimmunity and cancer will open new horizons for diagnosis and treatment of both groups of disease. This book presents studies of potential mechanisms linking autoimmunity and cancer and the relationship of malignancies with autoimmune disorders"--

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