Tumors of the Brain and Spine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: DeMonte, Franco (Editor), Gilbert, Mark R. (Editor), Mahajan, Anita (Editor), McCutcheon, Ian E. (Editor), Buzdar, Aman U. (Editor), Freedman, Ralph S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Series: M. D. Anderson Cancer Care Series
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Neurology.; Neurosurgery.; Pathology.; Surgical oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Oncology.

Our rapidly increasing knowledge about tumors of the brain and spine has rendered these tumors more treatable than ever before. In the new world of central nervous system oncology, maximally complete resection is followed by conformal radiotherapy and often by chemotherapy, the selection of which is...