In oncology today the accent lies on a multi-disciplinary approach, and consequently this handbook aims to provide wide-ranging information regarding all aspects of the surgical treatment of cancer.
Der Band beschreibt eine Methode zur quantitativen, multidimensionalen Erfassung chronischer Schmerzen bei Karzinompatienten im Endstadium der Krankheit.
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.
More than 140 years ago, lupus erythematosus (LE) was recognized as a disease entity by clinicians working in the field of dermatology, which had only recently become an independent medical discipline.
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.
"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.
The present volume of "e;Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology"e; is a series of papers on subjects that are relevant to the growing use of 'wild mice' in immunological, microbiological and genetical research.
The last decade has witnessed rapid progress in our under- standing of the mechanisms of protein export and secretion in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
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 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.
