Oncology category: 2472 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
This book deals in detail with all aspects of the best practice in modern radiotherapy for Hodgkin lymphoma. It provides the background and rationale for the inclusion of radiotherapy in today’s combined-modality approach, including special clinical situations such as Hodgkin lymphoma in children,...
Cancer Immunotherapy at the Crossroads
How Tumors Evade Immunity and What Can Be Done
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2003
Leading investigators and clinicians detail the different mechanisms used by tumors to escape and impair the immune system and then spell out possible clinical strategies to prevent or reverse tumor-induced immune dysfunction. The authors review the mechanisms of immune dysfunction and evasion mechanisms...
Interferon Alpha-2: Pre-Clinical and Clinical Evaluation
Proceedings of the Symposium held in Adjunction with the Second International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma, Lugano, Switzerland, June 13, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Interferon alpha-2 is a genetically engineered, highly purified pharmaceutical agent that has undergone extensive phase I and phase II clinical study in more than 1000 patients. The material has biological activity by intravenous, intramus cular and subcutaneous routes. Clinical toxicity principally...
by Michael J. Gonzalez, Jorge R. Miranda-Massari
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Research on vitamin C and its effects on cancer is growing in popularity around the world as positive research continues to accumulate building a stronger case for its effectiveness. This concise SpringerBrief on Vitamin C and Cancer presents the latest findings on how vitamin C induces apoptosis....
Dietary Fats, Lipids, Hormones, and Tumorigenesis
New Horizons in Basic Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book was inspired by a gatheringofscientists in Los Angeles in 1994 under the auspices of the UCLA Clinical Nutrition Research Unit which is funded by the National Cancer Institute to promote new research into nutrition and cancer prevention. This unit supports research integrating basic and...
Colorectal Cancer
From Pathogenesis to Prevention?
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The past 20 years have seen a surge of research into colorectal cancer, which is a reflection of the need to improve our methods of treating patients suffering from this increasingly common form of cancer. Greater knowledge of the basic mechanisms involved in colorectal carcinogenesis is an essential...
Histological Typing of Oesophageal and Gastric Tumours
In Collaboration with Pathologists in 8 Countries
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Giulia Zamboni, Sofia Gourtsoyianni
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
This handbook is a concise practical guide for residents and general radiologists that will offer reliable assistance during the performance and reporting of multidetector row computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in patients with Liver Bile Ducts and Pancreas conditions. It is organized...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This book would combine chapters written by the most qualified authors around the world whose research encompasses the effect of morphine or other opioids on tumor growth and metastasis. This includes clinicians involved in trials determining which type of post surgical pain management can minimize...
by Ann-Marie Broome
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2018
Advances in Cancer Research, Volume 139, provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. Original reviews are presented on a variety of topics relating to the rapidly developing intersection between nanotechnology and cancer research, with unique sections...
Immunotherapy of Cancer
An Innovative Treatment Comes of Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
This timely book, published just as cancer immunotherapy comes of age, summarizes the rationale, present status, and future perspective for cancer immunotherapy. Included are explanations of the constitution of the immune system and immunocheckpoints, the mechanism of antigen presentation and recognition,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Completely dedicated to the biomedical applications of metal nanoparticles, this book covers the different toxicity problems found in healthcare situations and also provides comprehensive info on the use of metal nanoparticles in treating various diseases. Metal Nanoparticles in Pharma is the first...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) as a harmful influence on the health of nonsmokers has been a controversial topic since the early 1980s. The International Conference on Indoor Air Quality held in Tokyo examined in great detail the relationship between passive smoking and lung cancer as revealed...