Oncology

Janice Post-White was an oncology nurse who thought she knew what life with cancer was about--until her four-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia.

Research is fast paced and advances in RNA interference have recently opened up new opportunities for genetic experiments in human cell lines.

Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research.

This book covers the wide range of malignant illness and where they intersect with environmental factors.

With a particular emphasis on tumor dormancy in breast, lung, prostate, and liver cancers, as well as in melanoma, this first volume of a new Springer series focuses on the interrelationship between biological processes of aging and tumors-both dormant and quiescent.

, Adrenal and Endocrine Tumors in Children' is the third volume in the series, 'Cancer Treatment and Research' devoted to pediatric oncology.

This superbly illustrated atlas serves as a basic introduction to contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM), a breakthrough functional breast imaging modality, which is rapidly growing.

The idea to compile recent results on the ectoenzymes aminopeptidase N/CD13 and dipeptidylpeptidase IV/CD26 arose from the great interest given by readers world-wide to the two proceedings volumes edited by us in 1997 and 2000 (Ansorge and Langner, 1997; Langner and Ansorge, 2000).

Cancer-causing viruses, also called oncoviruses, play a key role in the development of certain cancers.

Air Pollution and Human Cancer analyzes the evidence for the possible contribution of air pollution to the origin of human cancer.

Books mark the progress of Man since they were invented.

The Human Body: Linking Structure and Function provides knowledge on the human body's unique structure and how it works.

This innovative book provides a unique perspective on the biomedical and societal implications of personalized medicine and how it will help mitigate the healthcare crisis and rein in ever-growing expenditure.

This comprehensive reference expounds the current state of hormone therapy and castration resistance of prostate cancer (PCa).

This book aims to facilitate readers to understand the origin, growth pattern and relationship between tumor and adherent structure of craniopharyngioma, so as to improve the cure rate and safety of surgery.

Neuroblastoma is the single most common solid tumor of childhood.

Environmental Hygiene II deals with the evaluation of environmental pollutants and their relevance to human health.

Awarded a 2012 American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Award in the Consumer Health CategoryOne Man's Life-Changing Diagnosis provides a comprehensive patient's eye view of the clinical, emotional, relational and spiritual experience of prostate cancer from the time of first symptoms to diagnosis to treatment and to living as survivor with an advanced cancer that can return at any time.

This book is a comprehensive guide to imaging as a crucial part of the multidisciplinary approach to head and neck cancer management.

This book highlights selected current data and its relevance in the human health care system, offering a fundamental primer on genetics and human health.

There are few publications about drug interactions in chemotherapy and even less about pediatric oncology treatment.

This volume, Bioresponsive Polymers: Design and Application in Drug Delivery, focuses on recent advancements in bioresponsive polymers and their design, characterization, and applications in varied fields, such as drug delivery and gene delivery.

A comprehensive book that provides evidence-based information needed to address the complex issues of cancer in pregnancy.

This atlas describes and illustrates in detail the surgical procedures employed in laparoscopic anatomical liver resection, according to tumor location.

, Epidemiological studies have estimated that approximately 35 percent of cancers are potentially avoidable by nutritional modification.

The second, updated edition of Management of Breast Cancer in Older Women offers the reader evidence-based knowledge to support the care of older patients with breast cancer.

This volume presents techniques needed for the study of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in cancer from their identification to functional characterization.

Patients are beginning to benefit from antibody based, cellular and vaccine approaches that are effective against genetically diverse and therapy-resistance cancers.

As Head of Oncological Surgery and the Gynecology Clinic at Berlin's Charite Comprehensive Cancer Center, Jalid Sehouli is one of the world's leading cancer specialists.

This volume provides the first comprehensive review of the surgical anatomy of the groin in over 30 years.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to current state-of-the-art auto-segmentation approaches used in radiation oncology for auto-delineation of organs-of-risk for thoracic radiation treatment planning.

The fully revised second edition is a practical manual for all members of the stem cell and bone marrow transplant team.

Two sigma receptor subtypes have been proposed, sigma1 and 2.

Here, for the first time in English, is Franz Brentano's The Teaching of Jesus, a compendium of texts Brentano assembled for publication shortly before his death that constitute a frank, public settling of accounts with the Christian religion.

This book is the first of its kind in bringing together biodiversity, chemical ecology, phytochemistry and cancer therapy.

It has been our pleasure to edit the first book on an interdisciplinary science we call oncofertility.

The book offers in a single resource the whole coverage of different diseases and lesions, congenital or acquired, of the tongue, along with a complete spectrum of surgical techniques that can be used to achieve the best functional and aesthetic results.

Probably no two topics have generated more workshops, con- ferences, and lectures in medicine and education than the chron- ically ill child and the mandate of Public Law 94-142.

After reviewing the history of cancer and its impact on the population, Dr.

In the past decade, we have experienced an explosion of new information about cancer therapeutic targets.

A wide range of research methods for the study of vascular development, from basic laboratory protocols to advanced technologies used in clinical practice, are covered in this work.