Oncology and Radiology

Cancer Epigenetics

Epigenetics is a rapidly growing field of cancer research and Cancer Epigenetics deals with the epigenetic modifications to the DNA of cancer cells that do not comprise a change in the molecular processes nucleotide sequence than genetic mutations in a cell's transformation to cancer. It includes difference between normal cell and Tumor cell and analysis of nuclear organization, DNA methylation, Histone modification and the consequences of Genetic Mutations in genes encoding epigenetic regulators. DNA methylation patterns undergo complex changes in cancer