Oncology

This book covers physiologic, metabolic and molecular imaging for gliomas.

This book highlights the differences, in terms of neoplastic dissemination pathways, between various types of thoracic cancers.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the techniques, clinical applications, and benefits of the different forms of liquid biopsy employed in patients with a variety of tumor types, including lung, breast and colorectal cancer.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the clinical management of hereditary colorectal cancer.

This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of follicular lymphoma.

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This book presents the current state of the nursing science in topics relevant to the care of pediatric oncology patients and their families across the treatment trajectory and is framed within a precision health framework.

The ability to measure and monitor cancer biomarkers in "e;body fluid biopsy"e; should greatly impact oncologic practice.

This is a unique book focusing on the management of rare sarcomas, which pose an important challenge in Europe and in the US, as they represent nearly one quarter of all new diagnoses of cancer and have lower survival rates than common cancer.

Over the past few decades, lymphoma patient outcomes have improved as a result of multidrug chemotherapy and radiation therapy, intensification of treatment, improvement in supportive care, and better imaging and staging systems.

This fully updated second edition provides a comprehensive, state of the art review of renal cancer, and will serve as a guide for urology residents, clinicians, surgeons, and researchers with an interest in renal cell carcinoma.

This book provides pediatric surgeons with a comprehensive, up-to-date compilation of surgical and endoscopic procedures in the form of operative templates and explanatory text to orient learners to the pertinent details and technical variations of the operation.

This book gathers multidisciplinary articles that present advances of our understanding of diseases and the effective treatment of patients.

This contributed book covers all aspects concerning the clinical scenario of breast cancer in young women, providing physicians with the latest information on the topic.

Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed condition in oncology, affecting around 1.

This comprehensive volume reviews the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment approach to rare lymphomas.

This volume is a practical resource for the diagnosis and multi-disciplinary management of patients with vascular anomalies.

This book provides essential didactic content for the SAGES University Masters Program Colorectal Surgery Curriculum.

Mast cells (MC) are phylogenetically old cells which are distributed throughout the human organism.

Being a complex disease that affects millions of people world over, cancer research has assumed great significance.

This book, written by global experts in the field, provides a thorough overview on fertility and pregnancy challenges and solutions in women who are being or have been treated for cancer.

The view "e;It's all in our genes and we cannot change it"e; developed in the past 150 years since Gregor Mendel's experiments with flowering pea plants.

This book identifies the various ethical challenges that arise in pediatric hematology/oncology and provides the necessary tools to overcome these challenges.

This book offers a comprehensive review of recent advances in cancer immunotherapy, and explores the value and limitations of the most effective current therapeutic strategies and emerging treatment modalities.

Genomic sequencing technologies have augmented the classification of cancer beyond tissue of origin and towards a molecular taxonomy of cancer.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of brain metastases, from the molecular biology aspects to therapeutic management and perspectives.

This book presents and analyzes clinical cases of brain tumors and follows the classification provided by the WHO in 2016.

This volume provides a series of review articles that capture the advances in using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, model system to address a wide range of cancer-related topics.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the epidemiology, molecular pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC).

This book, part contributed volume, part proceedings, discusses state-of-the-art advances on human cell transformation in cell models for the study of cancer and aging.

As bone marrow transplant treatments and chemotherapy develop, the population of neutropenic cancer patients is on the rise.

The Organizing Committee of the 15th International Conference on Bioactive Lipids in Cancer, Inflammation and Related Diseases compiled a group of junior investigators to provide reviews on the topics they presented at the Puerto Vallarta Bioactive Lipids conference, as part of the book series, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB).

This book is about the various roles of bioactive ceramides and other sphingolipids in cellular biology.

This book offers a thorough, clear and practical guide to identifying, preventing and correcting any error or bias that may arise during the interpretation and reporting of medical images.

This book discusses a wide range of investigations and practice-oriented advances in pulmonary medicine and critical care.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the technical basis of laser ablation, describing and reporting in detail on the latest findings.

The cannabinoid system plays a central role in a wide variety of physiological functions that touch upon cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, immune, and nervous systems.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current limitations and unmet needs in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

This thesis describes the design, development, characterisation and clinical translation of three novel devices for optical endoscopic imaging.

Targeted therapies were initially developed to exploit the upregulation and dependence on key oncogenic pathways critical to cancer progression.

In this book, leaders in the field explore our current understanding of thrombosis and hemostasis in cancer and address key questions on the subject.

This book is a comprehensive overview of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and treatment options available for anal cancer.

The eukaryotic gene expression pathway involves a number of interlinked steps, with messenger RNA (mRNA) being the key intermediate.

In the past, liver resections and liver transplantations were performed by different surgical teams, with very little interplay between the two.

This book, conceived as an atlas with emphasis in diagnostic images, presents some tumors displaying expected clinical, histological or biological behavior but in most of them that differs from that usual morphology or clinical behaviour.

Resistance to therapies, both targeted and systemic, and metastases to distant organs are the underlying causes of breast cancer-associated mortality.

This new series, based on a bi-annual conference and its topics, represents a major contribution to the emerging science of cancer research and regenerative medicine.

The focus of this book is a detailed discussion of a dual cancer vaccine (CV)-immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) mathematical model formulated as a system of partial differential equations (PDEs) defining the spatiotemporal distribution of cells and biochemicals during tumor growth.

This book shares the latest research and practice-oriented findings in medical sciences with a wide audience.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the importance of molecular imaging in multiple myeloma, with detailed explanation of its clinical impact.