Liver Cancers From Mechanisms to Management /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cross, Tim (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Palmer, Daniel H. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Oncology .; Hepatology.; Primary care (Medicine).; Oncology.; Primary Care Medicine.

This book explores in detail the primary liver cancers of hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma examining the pathogenesis of disease along with diagnosis and current management options together with exploration of future treatment strategies and areas of controversy. Furthermore, the book...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
• Pathogenesis of HCC
• Surveillance for HCC
• Diagnosis of HCC
• Part II: Treatment
• Surgery
• Ablation techniques
• Transarterial chemoembolization
• Transarterial Radio-embolization
• Liver transplantation
• Chemotherapy and HCC
• Emerging novel therapies
• Part IIV: Cholangiocarcinoma
• Pathogenesis
• Diagnosis and surveillance
• Part IV:Management
• Surgery
• Ablation and embolic treatments
• Chemotherapy
• Emerging novel therapies
• Mixed Malignancies HCC/cholangiocarcinoma
• Part V: Metastatic Liver cancers
• Colorectal cancer
• Melanoma
• Neuroendocrine tumours
• Sarcomas
• Lymphoma
• Part VI: Benign Liver Tumours
• Benign Liver tumours.