Cancer and its management / Jeffrey Tobias, Daniel Hochhauser.
Material type: TextSeries: Online access with purchase: Wiley-Blackwell online booksPublisher: Chichester, England ; Oxford, England ; Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell, 2015Copyright date: �2015Edition: Seventh editionDescription: 1 online resource (627 pages) : illustrations (some color), graphs, tablesContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781118468753
- 1118468759
- 9781118468708
- 1118468708
- 1118468732
- 9781118468739
- 9781118468715
- 1118468716
- 616.99/4 22
- RC270.8 .T635 2015eb
- 2016 A-459
- QZ 266
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 18, 2014).
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 brief account of the whole field of oncology, focusing on the latest principles of cancer management. The book is already well established, having been first published in 1986 and in continuous print since then.
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.
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