Diseases and disorders

Mammography can be thought of as a (sub)macroscopic "e;shadow pathology"e; - confident diagnosis necessitates comprehensive knowledge of breast pathology.

This book describes and summarizes the radiation responses of both normal and neoplastic tissues with a focus on rational strategies for the modification of these responses.

 This volume provides a comprehensive, highly readable overview of the topics discussed at the First International Symposium on "e;Vitamin D Analogs in Cancer Prevention and Therapy"e; held in Homburg/Saar, Germany in May 2002.

Nuclear Medicine techniques have advanced to such a degree that biochemical transparency of the human body has reached the doorstep of medical application.

Hans-Jorg Senn H.

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

In February 1985 a small international meeting of scientists took place at the recreation resort of the Polish Academy of Sci- ences in Mogilany, near Cracow, Poland.

At this congress there were again numereous reports ofprogress in immunology.

The disease that came to be called acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first identified in the summer of 1981.

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

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This volume of Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology is concerned with a class of molecules that are the most potent polyclonal stimulators of T lymphocytes of several species.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

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;.

Der vorliegende Band dient den in Klinik und Praxis tätigen Dermatologen und dermatologisch interessierten Ärzten zur kontinuierlichen Fortbildung und als verläßliche Informationsquelle.

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.

Diabetes.

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.

The international symposium "e;New Trends in Allergy"e;, held in Munich from July 13 to 15, 1990, brought together for the third time since 1980 some of the most experienced researchers working in the field of allergy.

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.

Carbohydrate as the primary product of photosynthesis has a vital role in the maintenance of life on this planet.

Alzheimer's disease is one of the major scientific, medical and social challenges of our time.

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.

It has long been known that every individual has a large number of antibodies of different specificities.

When Antibiotics I was published in 1967, the teleological view was held by some that"e; antibiotics"e; were substances elaborated by certain microorgan- isms for the purpose of competing with other microorganisms for survival in mixed ecological environments.