Oncology

Bone Tumors - A Challenge for Cooperation E.

When I was asked by the Cancer Teaching Committee of the University of Chicago to set up a Symposium on Brain Tumors, I welcomed the opportunity to do so.

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Interest in the general field of tumor immunology has grown phenomenally in recent years.

The geography of medicine is a classical subject that can be studied wherever medicine is practised and the population counted.

The contributions in this book were originally presented at the workshop "e;Research and Clinical Application of Isolated Liver Perfusion for Hepatic Tumors"e; held on 28 February to 1 March 1997 in Hanover, Germany.

Several compounds are associated with experimentally induced neoplasms in the urinary systems, and especially the kidneys, of laboratory animals.

Oral Pathology as part of the Head and Neck Pathology is an interdisciplinary field of science.

Der Stellenwert von bisher eingesetzten und neuentwickelten nuklearmedizinischen Verfahren bei der Diagnostik des Mammakarzinoms und dessen Metastasen ist Thema dieses Buches.

Almost a century ago Paul Ehrlich introduced the "e;magic bullet"e; concept of targeting therapeutic agents to specific tissues in order to reduce systemic toxicity.

Primary mediastinal tumors are relatively rare.

We often hear physicians, health care professionals, poli- ticians, and patient advocates that "e;nothing has happened in the treatment of breast cancer,"e; since patients with breast cancer, the most frequent neoplastic condition in women in industrialized countries, are continuing to suffer relapse and succumb to this dreadful disease!

During the last years much attention has been given to the investigation of the roles of specific growth modulators acting on liver cell populations.

The European School of Oncology came into existence to respond to a need for information, education and training in the field of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

All epidemiological data predict an endemic rise of prostate cancer in populations with a high proportion of elderly people, leading to a major health problem.

Presented here are recent data on the mechanisms of action of different dusts and fibres of industrial interest.

150 years after the first description of the clinical picture of "e;white blood"e; and the introduction of the term "e;leukemia"e; by R.

Due to sensitive molecular biological techniques, our understanding of chromosomal aberrations is steadily increasing.

In the 1960s, it was reported that interferons have antitumour activity in different experimental models.

The management of advanced renal cell carcinoma is still problematic.

The "e;Europe against Cancer"e; programme has, from its inception, emphasised the key role which general practitioners must play in the actions necessary to achieve its aim of reducing the incidence and the mortality from cancer in the European Community.

The European School of Oncology came into existence to respond to a need for information, education and training in the field of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Initiation of cancer in the cell is experimentally related to action of chemicals and radiation.

Dieses Buch gibt den aktuellen Stand der gynäkologischen wie auch interdisziplinären Forschung auf dem Gebiet der immunbiologischen Tumorbehandlung und Chemotherapie wieder.

In diesem Buch werden zahlreiche Aspekte zur intravesikalen Therapie des oberflächlichen Harnblasenkarzinoms mit Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) erörtert.

Fast neutron therapy was introduced in London in 1970.

In the past two decades, considerable interest in skin cancer has developed in the public and scientific communities.

Sarcomas represent a group of rare tumors which arise from the largest tissue compartment of the body, but account only for about 1 % of all malignancies.

"e;Metastatic Bone Disease: Fundamental and Clinical Aspects"e;is an expanded version of a workshop on bone metastaseswhich was held in Heidelberg, Germany, in April 1993.

Biological response modifiers are increasingly used in viral and cancer therapy.

Ataxia-telangiectasia or A-T is a fatal progressiveneurological disease of children.

Das Buch gibt einen breiten Überblick über den derzeitigen Stand von Diagnostik und Therapie der Struma maligna aus interdisziplinärer Sicht.

Applied genetic research, genetic toxicology and mutation research investigate the mutagenicity of chemicals and other agents.

The European School of Oncology came into existence to respond to a need for information, education and training in the field of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

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The rates of acute leukemia cure have gradually improved over the last decade.

Im vorliegenden Buch werden wichtige Teilaspekte desProstatakarzinoms durchfolgende Themen dargestellt: Umfangder Diagnostik f}r die Indikation zur operativen oderkonservativen Behandlung, Optionen f}r die radikaleProstatektomie, Bedeutung der PSA, hormonelle Therapie desmetastasierten Prostatakarzinoms, Einflu~ der Planung aufdie Qualit{t klinischer Studien, Strahlentherapie undSchmerztherapie.

As controlled trials have demonstrated that in many Europeancountries breast cancer mortality may be reduced bypopulation-based mammographic screening of women over theage of 50, there is mounting pressure to introduce newservice screening programmes.

Why have another book in the bone-calcium field?

The European School of Oncology came into existence to respond to a need for information, education and training in the field of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.