Cancer and its Management, Fifth Edition

✍ Scribed by Robert Souhami, Jeffrey Tobias(auth.)

• Publisher: by Blackwell Science Ltd
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 542
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

highly acclaimed comprehensive and practical text covering the principles and practice of the management of cancer

Why Buy This Book?

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• Includes up-to-date information on the most recent techniques and therapies available
  
• Comprehensive and practical reference source of both common and rarer forms of cancer
  
• Highlights frequent dilemmas and difficulties encountered during cancer management
  
• Covers controversial topics including screening, genetic testing, prevention and AIDS-related cancers
  
• Provides the reader with fundamental knowledge about oncogenes, epidemiology and staging, through to basic actions of different treatment modalities

Cancer and its management is ideal for all those concerned with he management of cancer:

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• Surgical, clinical and medical oncologists - both consultants and trainees
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• Nursing staff with an interest in cancer
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• General practitioners, and medical, nursing and pharmacy students

"This book is exactly what was needed. All in all, this book is destined to become a classic."
The Lancet

"......should be compulsory reading for all would-be cancer specialists. The authors' discussion of controversial topics...is excellent."
British Medical Journal

"This is, without exaggeration, the book when it comes to Cancer. ... All in all, the Cancer Bible."
Microscope (NottinghamUniversityMedicalSchoolGazette)

Content:
Chapter 1 The Modern Management of Cancer: An Introductory Note (pages 1–5):
Chapter 2 Epidemiology, Cure, Treatment Trials and Screening (pages 6–22):
Chapter 3 Biology of Cancer (pages 23–41):
Chapter 4 Staging of Tumours (pages 42–56):
Chapter 5 Radiotherapy (pages 57–75):
Chapter 6 Systemic Treatment for Cancer (pages 76–107):
Chapter 7 Supportive Care and Symptom Relief (pages 108–122):
Chapter 8 Medical Problems and Radiotherapy Emergencies (pages 123–139):
Chapter 9 Paraneoplastic Syndromes (pages 140–149):
Chapter 10 Cancer of the Head and Neck (pages 150–173):
Chapter 11 Brain and Spinal Cord (pages 174–194):
Chapter 12 Tumours of the Lung and Mediastinum (pages 195–215):
Chapter 13 Breast Cancer (pages 216–235):
Chapter 14 Cancer of the Oesophagus and Stomach (pages 236–252):
Chapter 15 Cancer of the Liver, Biliary Tract and Pancreas (pages 253–269):
Chapter 16 Tumours of the Small and Large Bowel (pages 270–282):
Chapter 17 Gynaecological Cancer (pages 283–308):
Chapter 18 Genitourinary Cancer (pages 309–334):
Chapter 19 Testicular Cancer (pages 335–349):
Chapter 20 Thyroid and Adrenal Cancer (pages 350–363):
Chapter 21 Cancer from an Unknown Primary Site (pages 364–368):
Chapter 22 Skin Cancer (pages 369–385):
Chapter 23 Bone and Soft?Tissue Sarcomas (pages 386–404):
Chapter 24 Paediatric Malignancies (pages 405–425):
Chapter 25 Hodgkin's Disease (pages 426–442):
Chapter 26 Non?Hodgkin's Lymphomas (pages 443–468):
Chapter 27 Myeloma and other Paraproteinaemias (pages 469–481):
Chapter 28 Leukaemia (pages 482–498):