'The Physics of Cancer Volume 6 (Second edition)' book focuses on the topics of extracellular vesicular communication of cancer cells with their environment, such as matrix networks and neighbouring cells like immune and stromal cells, the role of autophagy in cancer, the dual function of mast cells in solid tumors in relation on immune regulation and mechanobiology, the effect of the mechanical characteristics of cancer cells and tumors on cancer progression and their possible potential for mechanical reprogramming of cancer cells, and the combination of mechanical and molecular analyses for dynamic and multiple analyses.

There is a rich history of the physical sciences contributing to cancer research and treatments, yet there is currently no such book that covers all of the new techniques and developments in the field of the physics of cancer. The purpose of this book is to make these very relevant topics visible to the research field to ensure they receive more attention in the scientific community.

Claudia Tanja Mierke is Head of the Department of Biological Physics at the Peter Debye Institute for Soft Matter Physics at Leipzig University. Her primary research areas are cell biophysics and cell mechanics, adhesion, motility (invasion) in biomimetic matrices, cancer and inflammation, cancer metastasis and tumormicroenvironment mechanics. She has published over 160 referred journal articles, books and book chapters largely dealing with soft matter physics and the physics of cancer. Over the past 20 years, Claudia had taught courses in biophysics, soft matter physics, cell biology for physicists and cellular biophysics, to both undergraduate and graduate students.