Oncology

Extensive research into the molecular mechanisms of cancer has heralded a new age of targeted therapy.

Current literature shows that there is a gap in our knowledge about how tired- ness/fatigue in cancer patients should be defined and measured.

More than ten years have elapsed since the publication of the first edition of Tumors and Tumorlike Lesions of Bone and Joints in 1981.

Every 4 years, neuroradiologists from around the world meetat an international congress in order to discuss the stateof their art.

This two-volume treatise, the collected effort of more than 50 authors, represents the first comprehensive survey of the chemistry and biology of the set of molecules known as peptide growth factors.

The surgical resection of a major portion of the liver for cancer of this viscus has long been neglected.

When in the future improved and more flexible heating equipment becomes available, and when hyperthermia is applied more routinely, computerized simulations of treatments will become commonplace, as they are in radia- tion therapy.

Medical imaging progressed to a standard undreamt of notvery many years ago.

The discussion of some diseases is only occasionally enlivened by the emergence of new worthwhile facts.

This volume presents the Proceedings of the University of Chicago's third Cancer Training Grant supported Teaching Symposium.

The writing of this monograph was stimulated on the one hand by experience gained in the study of "e;cancer families"e;, and on the other, by the frequent perplexed and bewildered comments made by numerous physicians who have expressed amaze- ment that we could think that "e;cancer is hereditary"e;.

The tremendous expansion of medical knowledge during the last few decades, together with the introduction of many new diagnostic techniques, has demanded such a degree of specialisation that no single individual can be conversant with all the information available.

Das Buch gibt eine aktuelle Darstellung der Behandlungsmethoden des Nierenkarzinoms.

Different cancer types can result from a multiplicity of genetic and environmental factors.

Blood stem cell transplantation has become an established therapeutic option in the treatment of malignant diseases.

Increasing survival figures and the use of more intense combined treatment regimens in modern oncology have raised the problem of late therapeutic sequelae in long-term survivors after cancer.

The fourth edition of the TNM Classification was published in 1987,1 and a revision in 1992.

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

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.

This volume summarizes the Proceedings of the fourth biennial Cancer Teaching Symposium held on March 7 and 8, 1970, at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

The mathematical models in this book are concerned with a variety of approaches to the manner in which the clinical radiologic treatment of human neoplasms can be improved.

Prostate cancer is by far the most common cancer in men and the second leading cause of death due to cancer.

During the last 30 years, many chemical compounds that are active against tumors have been discovered or developed.

This RRCR-conference-volume marks "e;number six"e; in a 20-year evolution of international conferences on the adjuvant therapy of primary breast cancer.

Psycho-oncology is a thriving discipline in cancer care, and numerous research activities have been undertaken in the endeavour to improve treatment outcomes and to gain a better understanding of the psychosocial consequences of cancer.

This book is a comprehensive and up-to-date compendium on all aspects of blood and marrow transplantation in children.

Germ cell tumors are relatively rare compared with other malignancies, and compilations of knowledge that encompass the entire spectrum of the disease are lacking.

Research on oncogenic viruses and related human cancers has advanced rapidly in the past decade.

After a decade of tremendous progress in the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to malignant lymphoma, optimal treatment strategies are now based not only on accurate diagnosis but also on thorough evaluation of clinical and molecular risk factors.

In recent decades, cytopathology has assumed an increasing role in the primary diagnosis of mass lesions owing to its ability to deliver rapid, non-invasive, and timely information.

This book - a conjoint effort of ocular oncologists, general oncologists, and pathologists - is a comprehensive source of authoritative information on the subject of ocular and adnexal lymphoma.

This book comprises proceedings from the Third International Conference on Advances in Nutrition and Cancer, held in Naples in May 2012.

The diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), a heterogeneous group of clonal hematopoietic disorders, is being made with increasing frequency over the past decade owing to increased recognition, improved understanding, and an aging population.

Accumulating evidence supports the role of defects in post-transcriptional gene regulation in the development of cancer.

This Recent Results in Cancer Research volume contains the majority of the invited expert contributions from the First St.

Over the past two decades, the remarkable advances in imaging techniques, such as ultrasound and fast or ultra-fast MRI, have led to the diagnosis of an increasing number of tumors at the prenatal stage.

Neutron capture therapy (NCT) is based on the ability of the non-radioactive isotope boron-10 to capture thermal neutrons with very high probability and immediately to release heavy particles with a path length of one cell diameter, which in principle allows for tumor cell-selective high-LET particle radiotherapy.

The prevention of colorectal cancer is a subject of increasing medical importance, and there have been a number of promising recent developments.

As the population ages, clinicians are facing an increasing number of elderly patients with colorectal cancer.

FDG PET/CT has rapidly emerged as an invaluable combined imaging modality that provides both anatomic and functional information.

The "e;Abtropfung"e; theory that nevi develop through the migration of nevus cells from the epidermis to the dermis prevailed for almost a century until the "e;Hochsteigerung"e; theory postulated the reverse pattern of migration.