Oncology

The aim of the book is to describe the current approach to meningiomas on the basis of experience gained in the fields of histopathology, biology, radiology and surgery.

Reevaluation of tumor classification, differential diagnosisand differential therapy based on modern knowledge.

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To stimulate greater German-Chinese cooperation in the field of oncology, the Ger- man Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) carried through a "e;Chinese-German Sympo- sium on Cancer of the Liver, the Esophagus, and the Nasopharynx"e; in Heidelberg from 3 to 5 July 1985.

Starting in 1986, the European School of Oncology has expanded its activities in postgraduate teaching, which consisted mainly of traditional disease-orientated courses, by promoting new educational initiatives.

Very thorough knowledge of breast pathology is a sine qua non for interpretation of breast films .

"e;The chemical laboratory is actually not a dangerous place to work in, but it demands a reasonable prudence on the part of the experimenters and instructers, to keep it a safe place.

With ever increasing demands on the constrained resources available for health care services, no one involved in decision making in health care can continue to ignore the economic costs of the services provided or the relative value for money offered by the available treatments.

International abgesicherte Klassifikationen von Nebenwirkungen in der Onkologie - anwendbar in Praxis, Klinik und klinischer Forschung - stehen im Mittelpunkt dieses Werkes.

Arachidonic acid metabolites are known to playa regulatory role in a number of biological systems, in which they function as microenviron- mental hormones and intracellular signal mediators.

A large body of information about possible causes of cancer has been ac- cumulated by both clinical experience in man and observations in animal experiments.

Tumours of the hand are highly varied, their only common feature being their location in an organ in which preservation of sensation and mobility must be our primary concern.

In a period of controversial attitudes to thyroid cancer, this book aims to correlate recent progress in basic sciences with new clinical management possibilities.

After the positive response which followed the first edition of this book 6 years ago, the editors were encouraged to prepare a completely reworked second edition that includes the modern advances in this field.

The development and improvement of new technologies have made pancreatic disease more accessible to diagnosis in the last decade.

The introduction of nuclear medicine into oncology dates back to the early 1 940s, when Lawrence reported on the tumor retention of 32P-phosphate, von Hevesy and von Euler soon afterwards published their fundamental work on the metabolism of phosphorus in sarcoma cells, and when almost at the same time Keston and his coworkers de- scribed their observation of the accumulation of radioactive iodine in metastases of a thyroid carcinoma.

During the past decade, the prognosis of bone and soft tissue tumors has improved considerably.

This book has its roots in a monograph on cancer of the esophagus and gastric cardia edited by us in 1965 and published in Chinese on- ly.

For more than ten years cell fusion techniques have been applied in studies on various lymphocyte functions.

The third American edition has been completely revised and expanded, although parts of the text of the second edition have been included.

Several discoveries are noteworthy for allowing us to probe the recesses of the virus- infected cell and to search for cryptic viral genomes which might provide clues in our studies of cancer etiology or developmental biology.

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.

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This two-and-a-half-day symposium has concentrated on main aspects of the rapidly expanding field ofleukocyte markers in hematology.

The purpose of this book, which is written mainly for pharmacothera- pists, is to draw the physician's attentions, through specific examples, to iatrogenic (i.

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The varying cancer incidence from country to country and region to region suggests that en- vironmental factors play a considerable role in the aetiology of cancer.