Cancer and its management /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Tobias, Jeffrey (Συγγραφέας), Hochhauser, Daniel (Συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, England ; Oxford, England ; Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
• Έκδοση: Seventh edition.
• Σειρά: Online access with purchase: Wiley-Blackwell online books.
• Θέματα: Cancer > Treatment.; Cancer > Diagnosis.; Neoplasms > therapy.; Neoplasms > diagnosis.; HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.; MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.; MEDICAL > Diseases.; MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.; MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.; Electronic books.

Now in its seventh edition, this highly-regarded book is designed as an introductory and reference text on the principles of diagnosis, staging, and treatment of tumors. As for the last 6 editions of the book, the aim and scope of the new edition are once again to provide a thorough yet reasonably b...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The modern management of cancer: an introductory note
• Epidemiology, cure, treatment trials and screening
• Biology of cancer
• Staging of tumors
• Radiotherapy
• Systematic treatment for cancer
• Supportive care and symptom relief
• Medical problems and radiotherapy emergencies
• Paraneoplastic syndromes
• Cancer of the head and neck
• Brain and spinal cord
• Tumours of the lung and mediastinum
• Breast cancer
• Cancer of the oesophagus and stomach
• Cancer of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas
• Tumours of the small and large bowel
• Gynaecological cancer
• Genitourinary cancer
• Testicular cancer
• Thyroid and adrenal cancer
• Cancer from an unknown primary site
• Skin cancer
• Bone and soft-tissue sarcomas
• Paediatric malignancies
• Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas
• Myeloma and other paraproteinaemias
• Leukaemia.