Oncology

Leading researchers are specially invited to provide a complete understanding of a key topic within the multidisciplinary fields of physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology.

Written by internationally renowned experts, the 3rd edition of this six volume textbook provides detailed practical guidance and advice on the diagnosis and management of the complete range of ocular cancers.

There has been a dramatic increase in knowledge of tight junctions in the past decade.

Transfusion Medicine and Hemostasis is a manual-style book that links transfusion medicine and hemostasis to laboratory methods and diagnostic tests engaged in routine and specialized coagulation laboratories.

Completely revised new edition of the definitive reference on disorders of hemoglobin.

Adding to a vitally important cycle of publications covering the latest research developments in our understanding of neoplasms affecting the human central nervous system, this edition focuses on numerous aspects of pineal, pituitary, and spinal tumors.

It is essential to minimize damage to normal tissues during radiation therapy and many strategies have been employed in finding the best methods for radioprotection.

This book offers a state-of-the-art report on recent discoveries concerning viral, bacterial, and parasite infectious cancers.

Im Jahre 1973, dem Zeitpunkt des Ein tri tts des einen der beiden Herausgeher in die Thoraxklinik stellte sich das Problem, dieses bis dahin weitgehend von der Tuberkulose geprägte Krankenhaus den Erfordernissen der Zeit anzupassen.

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.

This volume is a practical resource for the diagnosis and multi-disciplinary management of patients with vascular anomalies.

Ultrasound has been widely used in diagnostic imaging for a long time.

This practical ad easy-to-read manual is designed for quick consultation on how to deal with the most frequent clinical situations in the field of pleural pathology.

This book has been designed to provide the full description of the comprehensive management of peritoneal surface malignancies which have originated from different primaries, such as breast cancer, small bowel cancers and imatinib resistant GISTosis and sarcomas and pseudomyxoma.

This detailed volume explores numerous methods used in basic science laboratories to characterize cancer-related biomarkers, vital for better managing cancer burden, including cancer risk assessment, cancer diagnosis, determining cancer progression, and therapeutic response.

Cardiac tumors were once a nosographic entity of scarce clinical interest because of the rarity and of the intrinsic diagnostic and therapeutic impossibilities, and were considered a fatal morbid entity.

Convertases are widely expressed activating enzymes involved in various physiological and pathological processes.

The book delves into the role of biosimilars in the field of cancer treatment.

There is growing interest in using performance measurement as a means of holding federal, state, and local health agencies accountable for their use of public funds.

Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed condition in oncology, affecting around 1.

As an addition to the European postgraduate training system for young neurosurgeons we began to publish in 1974 this series of Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery which was later sponsored by the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies.

The first version of this atlas was released as video-assisted major pulmonary resections were just emerging as a valid alternative to conventional techniques.

Taking patients through all aspects of cancer care, this book provides specific, accurate information on various tumour types and treatment modalities, surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and complementary therapy.

For obvious practical reasons the subject of oncology has in- creasingly been becoming artificially subdivided, e.

Genomics and Pharmacogenomics in Anticancer Drug Development and Clinical Response provides the most comprehensive body of knowledge available on the role of genetic and genomic variation in the individualization of drug therapies in cancer patients.

The book provides comprehensive review of common uro-oncology cases mainly focusing on its management aspect.

Where do you begin to look for a recent, authoritative article on the diagnosis or management of a particular malignancy?

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Exosomes in Cancer evaluates the potential of exosome content manipulation in the development of novel therapeutics.

Present knowledge in regional cancer therapy is presented in this volume.

Presented here are recent data on the mechanisms of action of different dusts and fibres of industrial interest.

Filling a gap in the literature, this guide provides expert recommendations and research on carcinoma of an unknown primary site (CUP).

Anemia is a frequent complication of cancer and its treatment.

The ultimate resource to looking your best during and after cancer treatment, from a veteran beauty industry insider.

This book provides up-to-date information on key topics and issues in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), including the epidemiology, biology, diagnosis and treatment of particular forms of the disease, supportive care, and survivorship.

Twenty to thirty years ago, the prognosis for children with cancer was dismal.

Centrosomes play an integral role in the growth of cells and the ultimate development of many animals, and sometimes plants.

This Element summarises key oncogenic drivers, novel treatments and diagnostic strategies.

This is a book about using the best evidence to inform treatment decisions for people with cancer.

This thesis presents the development of theranostic gold nanostars (GNS) for multimodality cancer imaging and therapy.

This timely book covers the need to know clinical practices for all those involved in molecular laboratory science.

An increasing number of exercise scientists are applying their skills collaboratively (with medics and physiotherapists) to clinical populations and investigating the effects of exercise in relation to wide-ranging clinical, pathophysiological and psycho-social outcomes.

Der zweite Band der Reihe Onkologie heute beschäftigt sich mit der chirurgischen, internistisch-onkologischen und strahlentherapeutischen Behandlung von Colon- und Rectumcarcinomen, die zu den häufigsten Tumorerkrankungen zählen.

This popular textbook, now in its third edition, provides a theoretical framework for understanding why cancers arise, how they develop and how they can be treated.

I have been asked to write a foreword to the next edition of the Vademecum of Clinical Bio- chemistry renamed to Differential Diagnosis by Laboratory Medicine.

The detailed volume aims to provide a comprehensive hands-on manual covering all the techniques involved in the cellular and molecular identification and characterization of both normal hematopoietic and leukemic stem cells, both from human patients and from mouse models of human leukemia.

This book provides a practical guide to the diagnosis of cervical lesions.