International Manual of Oncology Practice iMOP - Principles of Oncology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: De Mello, Ramon Andrade (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mountzios, Giannis (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Tavares, Álvaro A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Cancer research.; Oncology .; Hematology.; Cell biology.; Pharmacy.; Cancer Research.; Oncology.; Cell Biology.

Cancer is a very aggressive disease and currently it has been considered a challenge to oncologists and cancer patients worldwide. Nowadays, several therapeutic strategies had improved toward last decades. Surgery is many times still the best curative treatment, mainly in early stage disease. Howeve...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Cancer screening and epidemiology
• Cancer stem cells
• Apoptosis
• Angiogenesis
• Genetic basis of metastasis
• Anti-cancer Drugs
• Immuno-oncology
• Health Econimics
• Small cell lung cancer
• Mesothelioma
• Thymus
• Breast
• Oesophageal
• Gastric
• Colon
• Rectal
• Anal Canal Cancer
• Small intestine
• Liver Cancer
• Pancreatic Cancer
• Ovarian
• Cervical
• Vagina
• Gestacional trophoblastic disease
• Prostate Cancer
• Renal Cell Carcinoma
• Urothelial Cancer
• Germ-Cell Tumors
• Penile Cancer
• Squamous Head and neck
• Thyroid cancer
• Parotid Gland Tumors
• Melanoma
• Soft Tissue Sarcomas
• Bone Sarcomas
• GIST
• NET
• Primary brain tumor
• Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• Myelodisplastic Syndrome
• Metabolic disturbance/paraneoplasic syndromes
• Spinal medular compression
• Superior vena cava syndrome
• Febrile neutropenia
• Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting
• Asthenia
• Oncological pain
• Bone Metastases
• Brain metastasis
• Palliative care
• Index.