Buch, Englisch, 602 Seiten, Format (B × H): 133 mm x 205 mm, Gewicht: 697 g
Buch, Englisch, 602 Seiten, Format (B × H): 133 mm x 205 mm, Gewicht: 697 g
Reihe: UICC International Union Against Cancer
ISBN: 978-3-540-58193-2
Verlag: Springer
While our knowledge about cancer is proliferating rapidly, our principles of cancer medicine for individual patients and for populations are evolving only gradually. Our fundamental understanding of cancer causes and deve lopment is incomplete, and our treatments are nonspecific and less often curative than we would like. Nevertheless, worldwide, our major challenge remains to apply to our populations all that we know about cancer. To meet this challenge, doctors everywhere need a broad view and under standing of cancer causes and control. This book is intended for doctors-in-training and clinical medical practi tioners; it provides principles across the breadth of cancer medicine. The editors and authors believe that it is possible to reduce the exposition of current knowledge to the compact 40 chapters and 600 pages presented here without losing the comprehensiveness, richness, and pragmatic detail that doctors need. This compilation presumes knowledge of the basic sciences, particularly genetics, pathology, anatomy, and physiology. We have tried to balance scientific exposition with practical material in preven tion, early detection, and palliative care, which are the major areas of pub lic health medicine where greater attention is needed worldwide. While this book is based, in part, on material prepared for previous edi tions, each chapter has been newly written and edited by the authors and editorial staff for this edition.
Zielgruppe
Professional/practitioner
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
Contens: Part I. Cellular and Molecular Biology of Cancer.- Natural Histories of Cancers.- Descriptive Epidemiology and Human Cancer.- Cancer Etiology.- Primary Prevention.- Smoking Cessation.- Screening and Early Detection.- Diagnosis and Pathology.- Staging and Management.- Surgical Principles.- Principles of Clinical Radiation Oncology.- Systemic Therapies.- Clinical Trials. Part II. Skin Cancer.- Melanoma of the Skin.- Tumors of the Head and Neck.- Thyroid Carcinoma.- Lung Cancer.- Liver Cancer.- Cancer of the Esophagus and Stomach.- Cancer of the Pancreas.- Cancer of the Colon, Rectum, and Anus.- Breast Cancer.- Cancer of the Uterine Cervix and Endometrium and Gestational Trophoblastic Disease.- Cancer of the Ovary.- Cancer of the Testis.- Cancer of the Prostate.- Kidney Cancer.- Bladder Cancer.- Tumors of the Central Nervous System.- Soft Tissue Sarcoma.- Bone Sarcomas.- Malignant Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma.- Leukemia.- Childhood Cancer.- Unknown Primary Cancers.- Complications and Supportive Care.- Pain and Symptom Management.- Rehabilitation.- Psychosocial Aspects of Cancer.
