Cancer and its management
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Cancer and its management
Blackwell Science, c1998
3rd ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Cancer and its management emphasizes the management of cancer by integrating basic science with clinical wisdom.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. The modern management of cancer: an introductory note
- 2. Epidemiology, cure, treatment trials and screening
- 3. Biology of cancer
- 4. Staging of tumours
- 5. Radiotherapy
- 6. Systemic treatment for cancer
- 7. Supportive care and symptom relief
- 8. Medical problems and radiotherapy emergencies
- 9. Hormonal and paraneoplastic syndromes
- 10. Cancer of the head and neck
- 11. Tumours of the nervous system
- 12. Tumours of the lung and mediastinum
- 13. Breast cancer
- 14. Cancer of the oesophagus and stomach
- 15. Cancer of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas
- 16. Tumours of the small and large bowel
- 17. Gynaecological cancer
- 18. Genitourinary cancer
- 19. Testicular cancer
- 20. Thyroid and adrenal cancer
- 21. Metastases from an unknown primary site
- 22. Skin cancer
- 23. Bone and soft tissue sarcomas
- 24. Paediatric malignancies
- 25. Hodgkin's disease
- 26. Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas
- 27. Myeloma and other paraproteinaemias
- 28. Leukaemia
- Index
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