Oncology category: 2472 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Californium-252 is a neutron emitter with a high specific activity, making it useful in a variety of applications, the most spectacular of which is in brachytherapy for cancer patients. Radiation oncology has exhausted nearly every option for treating radioresistant tumors by photon brachytherapy,...
Cancer and Chronic Conditions
Addressing the Problem of Multimorbidity in Cancer Patients and Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This book addresses the growing problem of multimorbidity in cancer patients and survivors with the focus on how to best integrate the effective cancer care with the care of multiple chronic conditions. As cancer is more prevalent in older individuals, many patients with cancer also suffer from other...
Cytokines and Growth Factors in Blood Transfusion
Proceedings of the Twentyfirst International Symposium on Blood Transfusion, Groningen 1996, organized by the Red Cross Blood Bank Noord Nederland
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Cytokines are cellular growth factors which also provide communication between cells and their milieu. This clearly is an exciting area in modern medicine that will have significant impact on various facets of transfusion. Erythropoietin therapy stimulates red cell production while thrombopoietin...
Principles and Practice of Lung Cancer
The Official Reference Text of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Thoroughly revised and updated, this Fourth Edition is the most comprehensive, current reference on lung cancer, with contributions from the world's foremost surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, pulmonologists, and basic scientists. Coverage includes complete information on combined...
by Jame Abraham, MD, FACP
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Gastrointestinal Malignancies
Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers are common diseases worldwide. About 400,000 patients are diagnosed with esophageal cancer worldwide each year and nearly 330,000 die for this disease. Roughly 870,000 patients are newly diagnosed each year with gastric cancer and...
by Maurie Markman, Ernest Hawk, Robert C. Bast Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Targeted Therapy in Translational Cancer Research for the Translational Oncology series provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in our understanding of tumor biology, elucidates the roles of targets and pathways involved in carcinogenesis, and describes current state-of-the-art anticancer...
by Ross Levine, MD
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
Topics include: Clinical Predictors of Outcome in MPNs; Molecular pathogenesis of MPNs; Disordered signaling in MPNs; Role of TET2/ASXL1 in MPN Pathogenesis; Pathogenesis and treatment of systemic mastocytosis; Role of additional novel therapies in MPNs; Role of novel mutations in MPN pathogenesis...
by Harold J. Burstein, MD, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
This issue, focusing on Breast Cancer, includes topics such as: Radiation Therapy for DCIS, Axillary dissection, Pathology in the age of personalized breast cancer treatment:, Clinical implications for breast cancer subsets defined by molecular diagnostics, Management of CNS Metastases in Breast Cancer,...
Gynecological Cancers
Genetic and Epigenetic Targets and Drug Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Facilitating the collaboration between the basic, translational, and clinical sciences, this book provides an overview of the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms underlying the formation and progression of gynecological cancers. Gynecological Cancers: Genetic and Epigenetic Targets and Drug Development gathers...
Atlas of Hematopathology
Morphology, Immunophenotype, Cytogenetics, and Molecular Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
As the definitive diagnostic atlas of the diseases of the hematopoietic system, the Atlas of Hematopathology appeals to a wide range of people who are being trained in a variety of medical fields or practicing as non-hematopathologists, and therefore, are looking for a book which can provide information...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
This second edition has been updated in a user-friendly layout that makes its comprehensive information extremely accessible. The handbook, written for all physicians who treat cancer patients, provides a survey of current therapeutic concepts of solid tumors and hematologic malignancies in internal...
by Samir N. Khleif, Olivier Rixe, Roland Skeel
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
For more than 30 years, Skeel’s Handbook of Cancer Therapy (formerly Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy) has been the resource of choice for current, reliable information on cancer treatment for most adults. The 9th Edition reflects recent significant advances in the systemic treatment of cancer, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This book is designed as a reference and working guide for practitioners who deal with patients with neoplastic diseases of the urinary tract and male genitalia, including tumors of the kidney, ureter and urinary bladder, prostate, testis, adrenal gland, and retroperitoneum. Each chapter describes...
Breast Cancer
A Lobar Disease
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
The theory of the sick lobe states that breast carcinoma is a lobar disease developing most often within a single lobe, meaning that, at an early stage, breast carcinoma occupies a limited, anatomically well-defined portion of the breast. This theory unites observed patterns from the genetic, developmental...