Overview: This book brings together reviews from experts who study mechanisms and signaling pathways that regulate development of squamous cancer in a variety of tissue sites, in both human and experimental mou.Squamous epithelia form the lining surface of tissues in contact with the environment: the skin, oral mucosa, esophagus and respiratory tract, the genital tract, and several other specialized tissues. These tissues are at highest risk for exposure to environmental carcinogens such as UV, tobacco smoke and infectious agents. Cancers that form in squamous epithelia are among the most comm
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