Download or read book Tumor Models in Cancer Research written by Beverly A. Teicher and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past 6 years since the first edition of this book have seen great progress in the development of genetically engineered mouse (GEM) models of cancer. These models are finding an important role in furthering our understanding of the biology of malignant disease. A comfortable position for GEM models in the routine conduct of screening for potential new therapeutics is coming more slowly but is coming. Increasing numbers of genetically engineered mice are available, some with conditional activation of oncogenes, some with multiple genetic changes providing mouse models that are moving closer to the human disease.