Oncology category: 2472 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A description of positron emission tomography in the diagnosis and management of malignant tumors. Experts from Germany and the United States present basics, technical details, and clinical aspects for both standard and new PET techniques, illustrating the importance of PET in comparison to other...
Cancerland
A Medical Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
An Amazon Best of the Month Book
"For all the insight he offers into the hard science and thorny logistics of studying cancer, Dr. Scadden’s most moving passages consider the effect of the disease on the people who suffer from it and those who care for them." —The Wall Street...
The Death of Cancer
After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Cancer touches everybody’s life in one way or another. But most of us know very little about how the disease works, why we treat it the way we do, and the personalities whose dedication got us where we are today. For fifty years, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. has been one of those key players: he has...
In My Hands
Compelling Stories from a Surgeon and His Patients Fighting Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
In IN MY HANDS**, surgical oncologist Dr. Steven Curley shares the empowering lessons he's learned over 25 years from his cancer patients' unique stories of struggle, perseverance, and triumph.**
As Chief of Surgical Oncology at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Steven Curley has worked with...
Awesome After Cancer
A Prescription for Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Cancer was her job—until it became her diagnosis.
Dr. Tonya Echols Cole knows cancer intimately. Not only has she worked as an oncologist for decades, she is also a breast cancer survivor. Her unique position of having been both cancer doctor and cancer patient allows her to give real-world...
Medicine Hands
Massage Therapy for People with Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
The field of oncology massage is maturing into a discipline with a deeper and deeper body of knowledge. The 3rd edition of Medicine Hands reflects this maturation. Every chapter contains updated information and insights into massaging people affected by cancer. New chapters have been added to cover...
One Renegade Cell
How Cancer Begins
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Cancer research has reached a major turning point, and no one is better qualified to explain the past two deacades' dramatic leaps forward in understanding this disease than world-renowned molecular biologist Robert Weinberg, director of the Oncology Research Laboratory at the Whitehead Institute...
Haematology
A Core Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
This textbook is written by a renowned haematologist with more than 30 years of experience in teaching haematology to medical students and whose pedagogical and writing skills are widely admired within the field. Following closely the current curriculum of Imperial College London, medical students,...
by Anthony Mega, MD, Fred J. Schiffman
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
Topics include: Why does my patient have leukocytosis?, Why Is My Patient Neutropenic?, Does My Patient with a Serum Monoclonal Spike have Multiple Myeloma?, DVT and Pulmonary Embolism, Why Does My Patient Have Lymphadenopathy/Splenomegaly?,and Why Does My Patient have Thrombocytopenia?
by Donald C. Doll, Radwan F. Khozouz, Wes Matthew Triplett
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Hematology Case Review is a comprehensive text that covers the expansive knowledge about the study of blood cells. After collecting blood smears and bone marrow aspirates for over 40 years, Dr. Doll has created the most up to date and comprehensive compilation of hematology case studies. These samples...
by Guy D. Eslick, PhD, MMEDSc(Clin Epi)
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Topics include: Rare Cancers; Mast Cell Leukemia; Uveal Melanoma; Esthesioneuroblastoma; Parathyroid Carcinoma; Thymoma/Thymic Carcinoma; Mesothelioma; Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST); Uterine Sarcoma; Cancer of the Appendix; Urethral Cancer; Anal Cancer; and Merkel Cell Carcinoma.
Active Surveillance for Localized Prostate Cancer
A New Paradigm for Clinical Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Active Surveillance for Localized Prostate Cancer: A New Paradigm for Clinical Management will serve as a useful resource for physicians dealing with, and interested in, this complex and evolving branch of prostate cancer management. The book will also be of interest to scientifically literate patients...
When Death Comes Knocking for Your Patients
A Guide for Nurses and Palliative Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
As a nurse or palliative caregiver, do you want to take better care of terminally ill patients, their loved ones, and yourself? Would you like to be empowered under difficult circumstances and feel more comfortable about what to say when providing palliative care?Based on thirty years of experience...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
This book comprises proceedings from the Third International Conference on Advances in Nutrition and Cancer, held in Naples in May 2012. This highly multidisciplinary meeting analyzed “nutrition and cancer” from different perspectives and on the basis of distinct and up-to-date experimental approaches....