Claudia Tanja Mierke's Physics of Cancer provides a wide-ranging introduction to the application of modern biophysical concepts to cancer research. The book's first section provides a broad overview that readers unfamiliar with cancer science or biophysics could appreciate. Overall, the content in Physics of Cancer is up-to-date, interesting, and highly relevant.
Dennis E. Discher 2016 Physics Today, American Institute of Physics

Preface About the author Introduction Part 1 Introduction to tumor biology from a biophysical point of view 1 Initiation of a neoplasm or tumor 2 Inflammation and cancer Part 2 The role of the mechanical properties of cancer cells in cellular invasion 3 Cellular stiffness and deformability 4 Cell–cell and cell–matrix adhesion strength, local cell stiffness and forces 5 Cytoskeletal remodeling dynamics 6 Intermediate filaments and nuclear deformability during matrix invasion 7 Cell surface tension, the mobility of cell surface receptors and their location in specific regions Part 3 The impact of the tumor microenvironment on cellular invasion 8 The mechanical and structural properties of the microenvironment 9 The impact of cells and substances within the extracellular matrix tissue on mechanical properties and cell invasion Part 4 The impact of the mechanical and biochemical interaction of cancer cells with other cells in transendothelial migration 10 The role of endothelial cell-cell adhesions 10-1 11 The mechanical properties of endothelial cells altered by aggressive cancer cells 12 The role of macrophages during cancer cell transendothelial migration References