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Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. Here, once again, outstanding and original reviews are presented on a variety of topics.

Contents:

1. Glycosylation and Cancer: Moving Glycomics to the Forefront
Richard R. Drake
2. Role of N-glycans in cancer Biomarker, Progression and Metastasis, and Therapeutics
Naoyuki Taniguchi and Yasuhiko Kizuka
3. Simple Sugars to Complex Disease - Mucin-type O-glycans in Cancer
Matthew R. Kudelka, Tongzhong Ju, Jamie Heimburg-Molinaro, and Richard D. Cummings
4. Intracellular Protein O-GlcNAc Modification Integrates Nutrient Status with Transcriptional and Metabolic Regulation
Alexis K. Nagel and Lauren E. Ball
5. The Detection and Discovery of Glycan Motifs in Biological Samples Using Lectins and Antibodies: New Methods and Opportunities
Huiyuan Tang, Peter Hsueh, Doron Kletter, Marshall Bern, and Brian Haab
6. Glycosylation Characteristics of Colorectal Cancer
Stephanie Holst, Manfred Wuhrer and Yoann Rombouts
7. Glycosylation and Liver Cancer
Anand Mehta, Harmin Herrera and Timothy Block
8. Functional Impact of Tumor-Specific N-linked Glycan Changes in Breast and Ovarian Cancers
Huabei Guo and Karen Abbott
9. Glycosylation Alterations in Lung and Brain Cancer
Hassan Lemjabbar-Alaoui, Andrew McKinney, Yi-Wei Yang, Vy M. Tran and Joanna J. Phillip
10. Altered Glycosylation in Prostate Cancer
Richard R. Drake, E. Ellen Jones, Thomas W. Powers and Julius O. Nyalwidhe