This book aims to create consensus among hematology and oncology faculty in the guidance of trainees during their busy hematology/oncology inpatient months.
This book provides all the information required for the optimal and practical use of nuclear medicine techniques, which are undergoing rapid development yet remain underutilized.
Dieses Buch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die derzeitige Indikationsstellung, operative Taktik und chirurgische Technik in der Behandlung chirurgischer Erkrankungen der Speiseröhre.
Die Bedeutung von Lebenssinn als eine wichtige Ressource im Rahmen der Krankheitsverarbeitung wurde bei unterschiedlichen Gruppen von Patienten wissenschaftlich nachgewiesen.
This book is a full colour, highly clinical multi-media atlas focusing on the role diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy plays in the management of patients with cancer.
Durch die steigenden Überlebensraten in der Krebstherapie trägt die onkologische Rehabilitation wesentlich zur Verbesserung des funktionellen Status, der Lebensqualität und der Partizipation onkologischer Patienten bei.
This book discusses the novel metabolic cross-talk between immune and tumor cells in the tumor microenvironment that promotes their growth and progression.
Addressing the many challenges that have arisen since the publication of its predecessor, this third edition covers the newest developments involved in the design and analysis of cancer clinical trials.
Finally, a concise pocket guide designed as a quick reference for busy clinicians who seek to improve the care they provide to cancer patients and cancer survivors.
Screening programmes involve the systematic offer of testing for populations or groups of apparently healthy people to identify individuals who may be at future risk of a particular medical condition or disease, with the aim of offering intervention to reduce their risk.
This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide for the safe and efficient management of patients with intrinsic brain tumors and medically intractable epilepsy.
Cancer Stem Cells covers a wide range of topics in cancer stem cell biology, including the functional characteristics of cancer stem cells and how they're generated, where they are localized, the means by which cancer stem cells can be targeted, and how cancer stem cells can be reprogrammed back to normal tissue stem cells.
This book discusses the epidemiology and the known cardiotoxic effects of chemoradiation agents in addition to newer therapies in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).
Recent Results in Cancer Research: Hormones and Human Breast Cancer provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of breast cancer and hormones.
This book provides basic knowledge of the biology, chemistry, and function of oxysterols and its derivatives as well as of phytosterols in numerous human diseases.
This volume will explore the latest findings in research into the genetics of breast and reproductive cancers, covering the epidemiological aspects of these cancers, their etiology, the effect of environment on genes and cancer etiology, and how research in this area can lead to development of preventative measures and treatments.
In collaboration with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), this timely volume provides a comprehensive review on all areas of breast cancer survivorship research, highlighting research that is underway or in development.
Now divided into four parts, the second edition of Cancer Pain delivers broad coverage of the issues that arise in the management of malignancy-related pain, from basic science, through end of life care and associated ethical issues, to therapies, both medical and complementary.
This book provides a comprehensive review of diagnosis and treatments of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) for practitioners and researchers with an interest in this disease.
This volume focuses on our current understanding of the molecular underpinnings of prostate cancer and their potential application for precision medicine approaches.
This updated edition provides clinicians from various backgrounds and levels of training the information needed to optimally diagnose and manage neurologic complications of the nervous system.
The development of new techniques such as immuno- phenotyping, cytogenetic investigations and, more recently, molecular studies has considerably increased our diagnostic repertoire and broadened our ideas about the biology of acute leukemias.
This book provides a qualitative and quantitative exploration of the action of radiation on living matter which leads to a complete and coherent interpretation of radiation biology.
Immunology for Surgeons looks at relevant immunological and molecular biological trends - these form the focus of discussion for future treatment of complex surgical disease.
This book explores outcome modeling in cancer from a data-centric perspective to enable a better understanding of complex treatment response, to guide the design of advanced clinical trials, and to aid personalized patient care and improve their quality of life.
This detailed volume presents a variety of mouse models for cancer studies, from leukemia and lymphoma models to different types of subcutaneous and orthotopic models.