Oncology Books

Step into your skin's fascinating story with "Skin Chronicles: A Guide to Conditions, Treatment, and Cosmetic Perspectives." This comprehensive companion unravels the mysteries of your largest organ, delving into the science behind its conditions, the...

Embark on a comprehensive exploration of "Benign Tumor Demystified: Doctor's Secret Guide," a definitive resource that delves into the intricacies of benign tumors. From understanding the nature and types of benign tumors to deciphering the critical...

This book is timely because of the increasing popularity of minimally invasive and cost effective methods to ablate solid tumors. Medical image guided ablation using thermal energy sources such as radio-frequency, microwave, laser, high-intensity focused...

Doktorarbeit / Dissertation aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Medizin - Radiologie, Nuklearmedizin, Note: magna cum laude, Universität zu Köln (Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Nach Radioiodtherapie (RIT) stellt der...

Complete with dozens of color clinical photos to aid readers in diagnosis and treatment, this book includes TNM staging, description of the histopathology, and a step-by-step guide through the diagnosis of the disease. It is the most common form of...

​Written for residents and practitioners of otolaryngology, medical oncology, radiation oncology, and maxiollofacial surgery, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive, concise discussion of the best evidence available on which to base clinical...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

I decided to call my cancer the little c rather than the Big C. I wasn't giving it that much power over my life! - Cathy KoningCathy has been feeling unwell for some time. Eventually her worst fears are confirmed with the shock diagnosis of Acute...

 REIMAGINE CANCER SUVIVALThat's what cancer survivor Mark Roby wants you to do. On December 30, 2002, Roby was diagnosed with one of the rarest cancers in the world and told it was unresponsive to all known chemotherapy. His oncologist suggested...

Foreword. General Background: 1. Overview of Dietary Recommendations on Diet and Cancer; E. Benito. 2. Carcinogens and Mutagens in the Diet; W.K. Lutz, J. Schlatter. 3. Anticarcinogens/Inhibitors in the Diet; M.J. Hill. 4. Role of Vitamins and...

H. pylori infection, both in man and in the laboratory animal, has become a standard model to investigate fundamental problems in biology, such as microbial-host interactions, intracellular signalling, modulation of...

Although cell turnover in normal adult liver is extremely low, hepatic tissue is notorious for its almost infinite capacity to regenerate in cases of viral, toxic or traumatic damage. Hepatocellular carcinoma is one of the...

Introduction The prevailing model of medical care for patients with cancer emphasizes the curative efforts of medical technology toward the eradication of the disease. Yet the suffering of the patient as a result of both the...

Policy and outcome studies represent a new area of research in oncology. Understanding the factors that affect quality of life, costs of care, patterns of care, and outcomes in oncology is important to providing ...

The field of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is rapidly evolving. Realization that hematopoietic stem cells give rise to the immune compartment has resulted in clinical trials of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation...

Phytochemical-based cancer therapeutics by targeting epigenetic and cell signalling.

From diagnosis through progression of breast cancer, patients have confided to their oncologist their fears, their hopes, the personal problems created by their illness, their way of coping or their inability to cope with the disease and its treatment...

Presenting specialized biological information on what cancer is, this book looks at how it damages the body, and how cancer treatments work. Engaging, accessible and illustrated throughout, this unique text: explains the basic...

As useful to students and nuclear professionals as its popular predecessors, this fifth edition provides the most up-to-date and accessible introduction to radiation detector materials, systems, and applications. There have been many advances in the...

Sharon Hoffman's life changed drastically when her husband of thirty-six years was diagnosed with lung cancer and died just five months later. In her poignant account of her journey through terminal illness and grief, Hoffman offers a compelling personal...

Each time I dared to smile, another thunderbolt shook my world. Where would the grief end and the peace of mind begin?

""Wound Reparation and Polarity in Tentacles of Actinians"" is a scientific book written by Herbert Wilbur Rand and first published in 1909. The book provides a detailed analysis of the process of wound healing and polarity in the tentacles of sea...

""The Surgery of the Pancreas: As Based Upon Experiments and Clinical Researches"" is a book written by Nicholas Senn in 1886. It is a comprehensive study on the surgical procedures and techniques used for the treatment of pancreatic diseases. The book...

The Spermatogonial Divisions in Brachystola Magna is a scientific research book written by Walter S. Sutton in the year 1900. The book primarily focuses on the spermatogonial divisions in Brachystola Magna, which is a species of grasshopper. The author...

The book ""The Significance Of Scute And Plate Abnormalities In Chelonia"" written by Horatio Hackett Newman in 1906 is a scientific study that focuses on the abnormalities found in the scutes and plates of turtles and tortoises, collectively known as...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Outlining the best means of infection management and emphasizing early recognition and identification of pathogens, this trailblazing volume pinpoints the distinct immunodeficiencies related to specific malignancies that result in predictable...

Clinical trials have two purposes -- to treat the patients in the trial, and to obtain information which increases our understanding of the disease and especially how patients respond to treatment. Statistical design...

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. Many women will be demanding to know their degree of risk and will need counselling...

Over the last 50 years, drug development and clinical trials have resulted in successful complete responses in diseases such as childhood leukemia, testicular cancer and Hodgkin's disease. We are still, however, confronted...

The hybridoma technique for producing monoclonal antibodies developed by Drs. Kohler and Millstein in 1975 revolutionized the field of tumor immunology. It is now clear that there are antigens associated with or restricted to...

The most salient feature of the infor­ last four chapters of the book evaluate the mation provided by nuclear medicine is its information from an analytical and pathophysiological and functional charac­ statistical point of...

Colorectal cancer is a collective term for a heterogeneous group of diseases. In a large proportion of cases, the condition is attributable to genetic predisposition. Those directly involved in the treatment of patients with...

The first edition of Oncogenes (1989) focused on several of the better known transforming mechanisms and surveyed a spectrum of solid tumors and hematologic malignancies. Several of the nearly 50 known oncogenes most relevant...

The results of randomized trials evaluating the use of early or adjuvant systemic treatment for patients with resectable breast cancer provide an eloquent rebuttal to those who would argue that we have made no progress in the...

The present book is a collection of original contributions by specialists in fields related to the more advanced methods presently used or foreseen in the near future for cancer therapy. The use of larger nuclear ...

The focus of the 22nd Annual Detroit Cancer Symposium was the presentation and discussion of cytotoxic agents, with a significant portion of the symposium including the exciting frontiers of drug discovery being explored by...

This book is a compilation of the invited papers, which were presented at the Fourth European Symposium on Radiopharmacy and Radiopharmaceuticals, which was held in Baden, Switz- land, 1-4 May, 1991. The First and Third...

This volume contains the proceedings of the First International Conference on Eicosanoids and Other Bioactive Lipids in Cancer and Radiation Injury held in Detroit, Michigan on October 11-14, 1989. The program consisted of 83...

Where do you begin to look for a recent, authoritative article on the diagnosis or management of a particular malignancy? The few general oncology textbooks are generally out of date. Single papers in specialized journals are...

The importance of drug resistance in cancer chemotherapy cannot be over­ stated. The 500,000 patients who die every year from cancer in the United States have, in most cases, been treated with chemotherapy. Many of these...

This book is a logical companion volume to Women at High Risk to Breast Cancer (Kluwer, 1989) edited by me previously. It distinguishes two aspects of current ap­ proaches to clinical breast cancer prevention. The first is the...