Oncology

The fifth edition of the only comprehensive text dealing exclusively with rare or infrequently encountered malignancies in adults and children is an essential resource for any clinical oncologist.

This book discusses the role of nuclear medicine in the diagnosis, staging, and treatment of patients with specific cancers.

Lanzkowsky's Manual of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Seventh Edition remains the go-to clinical manual for the treatment and management of childhood cancers and blood disorders.

Novel drugs are being developed which interact with the programmed cell death (apoptotic) machinery in cancer cells, thereby causing these cells to commit suicide and to be removed from the body.

l Tumor transformation produces numerous antigenic alterations ), particularly 2 among the glycoconjugates, sugars linked to each other, to lipids and to proteins , 3).

This contributed volume addresses the link between the social environment and cancer in Europe.

Cancer nanotechnology is a growing, emerging area of cross-disciplinary research that aims to develop efficient, specific and noninvasive approaches to restore the health and well-being of all cancer patients through more effective diagnosis and treatment.

Cancer screening has been carried out for six decades - however, there are many unsolved problems: how to estimate key parameters involved in screenings, such as sensitivity, the time duration in the preclinical state (i.

The controlled clinical trial has become an essential part of the clinician's decision-making process.

A general introduction to the principles of diagnosis and treatment of children with brain tumors is presented.

Gliomas, developing in the brain from the transformed glial cells, are a very special kind of tumor, extremely refractory to conventional treatments.

This book identifies key treatment challenges and unique care considerations in patients with head and neck cancers, providing a comprehensive guide to patient management that illustrates the critical importance of a multidisciplinary approach in achieving optimal oncological, functional, and survival outcomes.

The Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care returns for a third edition, maintaining the concise yet comprehensive format suited to the busy practitioner for quick access to key information, and fully updated to reflect changes in the palliative care landscape.

Volume 542 of Methods in Enzymology continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field.

This latest volume of the biannual serial continues rapid, current coverage of all aspect of the molecular basis of human cancer, functions of oncogenes , and research strategies of cancer drug development and treatment

This astute volume brings together the latest expert research on adamantinomatous craniopharyngiomas (ACPs).

This book tries to emphasize the mechanisms associated with the resistance towards various anti-cancer therapies The focus has been given to the role of cancer stem cells, immune cells, and the multiway impact of tumor microenvironment in drug resistance.

Even though diffusion chamber culture was commenced long before ortho- dox tissue culture by Metchnikoff (1887) there have been only sporadic attempts to use this methodology to study cell proliferation (review by Carsten, Chap.

This book provides a case-based guide to the diagnosis and management of dermatopathological conditions.

The management of liver tumors is a nexus of interactions among multiple medical specialties, including radiation oncology.

This book thoroughly illustrates the designed and tailored medical approaches for tumors of the female reproductive organ.

This book provides state-of-the-art, in-depth knowledge of spinal cord tumor surgery.

This book focuses on the biological mechanisms of minimal residual disease (MRD) and recurrence.

This book clearly explains when and how different rehabilitation techniques should be applied in the aging patient, thereby enabling readers to identify and apply those rehabilitation strategies that will maximize quality of life and functional independence in individual cases.

This book describes the plasmonic photothermal-assisted multimodal cancer therapeutics in the area of cancer nanotechnology or cancer nanomedicine.

We have studied 24 cases of secondarily leukemic (stage V) lymphosarcoma (LS), 31 cases of "e;d'emblee"e; leukemic LS, and ten cases of lymphoid leukemic neoplasias transitional between "e;d'emblee"e; leukemic LS and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (eLL).

This textbook is the first to focus on comprehensive interdisciplinary care approaches aimed at enhancing the wellbeing of children with cancer and their families throughout the illness experience.

With the rise of systems biology as an approach in biochemistry research, using high throughput techniques such as mass spectrometry to generate metabolic profiles of cancer metabolism is becoming increasingly popular.

Winner of a 2025 Excellence in Publishing Award from the Association of Catholic Publishers: Spirituality (Third Place [tie]).

Horizons in Cancer Research.

Antisense technology is the ability to manipulate gene expression within mammalian cells providing powerful experimental approaches for the study of gene function and gene regulation.

Colorectal cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related death in the Western World.

Physicians are increasingly recognizing that helping a cancer patient feel good about themselves and about their appearance can be of vital importance in giving them the emotional support and psychological resilience to survive and recover from the side-effects of disease and its treatment.

Die Vor- und Nachteile der Hormonersatztherapie (HRT) werden von einer Expertengruppe hinsichtlich der epidemiologischen Beweislage diskutiert.

This book is a pocket guide to the science and practice of PET/CT imaging of colorectal malignancies.

Psycho-Oncology is a comprehensive handbook that provides best practice models for the management of psychological, cognitive, and social outcomes of adults living with cancer and their families.

This book was prepared as extension of author's accidental discoveries on experimental models of acute and chronic ocular inflammatory diseases that were established at the University of Pennsylvania in 1980's.

This book presents a state-of-the-art report on recent advances concerning Ganoderma and where the field is going.

Geriatric Psycho-Oncology is a comprehensive handbook that provides best practice models for the management of psychological, cognitive, and social outcomes of older adults living with cancer and their families.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally.

A unique point-of-care guide to clinical hematology-oncology that answers the most frequently asked questionsHematology-Oncology Clinical Questions is the single-best resource for quickly converting the most current data and research into practical, diagnostic real-time solutions.

X-ray imaging is a corner stone of breast cancer diagnosis.

Regulatory authorities worldwide still depend greatly upon and require long-term animal test results.

This book covers the entire spectrum of gestational trophoblastic disease from the most benign to the most malignant form.

A biomarker is a molecule that is measured as a marker of normal biological processes, disease processes or the response to a diagnostic or therapeutic intervention.

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among the female population.

This new book provides a clinically relevant overview of cancer immunology and immunotherapy, exploring the cutting-edge research behind cancer's driving mechanism of immune suppression and providing radical new ideas for improving therapy by employing these principles.

The book presents guides to the diagnosis and management of Oral Submucous Fibrosis, and includes a concise update on the recent evidence on aetiology and aetiopathogenesis to educate the reader on the prevention of the disease.

This collection of chapters describes in detail the physical therapy research in patients with various types of cancers to help medical professionals and physical therapists help improve the physical function, activity of daily living, quality of life, the survival rate in cancer patients and cancer survivors.