Oncology

A critical summary of the state of the art of PET technology and related disciplines (camera physics, radiochemistry, radiopharmacology, computerised brain atlases and databases, etc.

The explosion of new information on Helicobacter pylori-related disease, both in the basic sciences and in clinical medicine, has continued to progress at an unprecedented pace.

Breast cancer is a major health problem in the Western world, where it is the most common cancer among women.

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Two decades have passed since the mechanisms of protein synthesis became well enough understood to permit the genetic modification oforganisms.

Endometriosis provides a unique clinical and scientific challenge.

The European Organization for Cooperation in Cancer Prevention Studies (ECP) was established in 1981 to promote collaboration between scientists working in the various European countries on cancer causation and prevention.

Growing human cancer cells in primary culture requires patience, intuition, care and experience.

MRI is assuming a dominant role in imaging of the larynx.

This volume contains the proceedings of the latest in a series of international symposia on advances in neuro-oncology, held September 26-29, 1990, in San Remo, Italy and sponsored by the University of Pavia, I.

This book is a logical companion volume to Women at High Risk to Breast Cancer (Kluwer, 1989) edited by me previously.

Historically, disorders of salivary glands tend to be 'underdiagnosed and overtreated'.

It was at Frankfurt/Mainin 1899 that Paul Ehrlich first expounded his famous "e;site-chain theory"e; -which described the basic immunological principal of antibody-antigen interactio- on the occasion of the opening of the Institute for Experimental Therapeutics (which was later named after him).

This book contains a selection of the papers presented at the meeting "e;Between Clone and Clinic"e; which was organised in March 1990 in Amsterdam by the dutch Organisation for Applied Research, TNO, and the University of Utrecht.

In the last decade tremendous progress has been made in the diagnosis and treatment of tumours of the mediastinum.

The European Cancer Prevention Organization (ECP) was established in 1981 with the objective of developing studies of the aetiology and preven- tion of cancer through concerted-action European collaborative studies.

Cancer is an important cause of death within the first 15 played an important role in assembling valuable data concerning some of the less common neoplasms.

This comprehensive book, lavishly illustrated with over 700 colour pictures, addresses the subject of bone in internal medicine.

Animal cell technology has been making tremendous progress.

Recombinant human interleukin-2 became available for clinical use in the mid 1980s.

Parameters such as membrane transport, metabolism and protein incorporation govern the fate of amino acids in living tissue.

The discovery of the antitumour activity of cisplatin in 1965 and its subsequent introduction into clinical trials in 1971 was the catalyst for a major international research effort investigating the potential of metal compounds in cancer therapy.

This book is an up-to-date review of current knowledge in the field of multiple drug resistance in human cancer.

It has been recognized for almost 200 years that certain families seem to inherit cancer.

The past five years have witnessed a remarkable development of interest in cell death 'from inside out'.

Breast cancer is not only a burning public issue, but very soon we shall see genetic testing for a woman's predisposition to breast cancer.

In the past nuclear medicine has tended to develop in cycles governed by the development of new radiopharmaceuticals followed or preceded by advances in instrumentation.

Pain in oncology, and especially in patients with advanced disease, is an essential issue which cannot be overlooked.

When the editors asked me to write a foreword to this book I felt very honoured but somewhat embarrassed.

Undoubtedly, the medical aspects of mammary carcinoma-its cause, early detection and treatment-have received considerable attention.

An immunological approach to the treatment of cancer has many theoretical features to commend it.

Seventeen years after its initial description, nuclear factor-KB (NF-KB) endures as one of the most studied transcription factors.

In contrast to books on specific bioactive compounds, this book deals with the role of mevalonic acid metabolites (isoprenoids and their derived structures) in metabolism, development, and functions of organisms, which, though diverse, show various levels of communication.

The Metastasis Group of the European Organization for Research on Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) held an International Meeting at the Royal Institution in London on April 2lst-23rd, 1980.

In recent years the field of cancer treatment has been burgeoning with ever expanding interest and commitments to research and therapy.

Of those people dying with cancer, many die as a result of metastases.

This book is based on the proceedings of a successful Boerhaave International Symposium on colorectal cancer held at the University of Leiden, 6-9 June, 1979.

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

When compiling the present atlas our aim has been to provide the practis- ing radiotherapist with a handbook which would help him to plan the radiation therapy of tumours of individual organs.

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

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

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

There is a wide variation in the clinical syndromes and in the severity of respiratory tract infections.

The assessment of tumour response after treatment is one of the most important challenges in Oncology and the picture is so often complicated by the effects of therapy itself.

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

Heredity, environment, the role of infectious agents, and other influences have been cited within a multiplicity of factors of possible relevance to the problem of neoplasm etiology.