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By
Clive Peedell, BM, MRCP, FRCR, Specialist Registrar, Cookridge Hospital, Leeds, UK
Description
Cancer will affect at least one in three of the population. CONCISE CLINICAL ONCOLOGY gives an accurate, reader-friendly overview of the
modern management of cancer in the UK. The book contains appendices with information on radiation tolerance of normal tissues, an a-z
of commonly used chemotherapy drugs, useful cancer-related websites, and definitions of performance status.
Contents
Section one – Principles of Oncology
1. Introduction – The cancer problem
2. Basic cancer biology
3. Principles of cancer pathology
4.
Principles of surgical oncology
5. rinciples of radiotherapy
6. Principles of systemic therapy
7. Principles of radiology
8.
Principles of symptom management in oncology and palliative care
9. Clinical trials in oncology
10. Principles of cancer screening
Section
two – A-Z of cancers
11. Adrenal cancer
12. AIDS related cancer
13. Anal cancer
14. Bladder cancer
15. Brain tumours
16.
Breast cancer
17. Carcinoma of unknown primary site
18. Carcinoid and other neuroendocrine tumours
19. Cervical cancer
20.
Colorectal cancer
21. Endometrial cancer
22. Gastric cancer
23. Head and neck cancer
24. Hepatobiliary cancer
25.
Hodgkin?s lymphoma
26. Leukaemia – acute
27. Leukaemia – chronic
28. Lung cancer
29. Malignant mesothelioma
30.
Melanoma
31. Multiple myeloma
32. Non-Hodgkin?s lymphoma
33. Oesophageal cancer
34. Ovarian cancer
35. Paediatric
oncology
36. Pancreatic cancer
37. Penis cancer
38. Prostate cancer
39. Renal cancer
40. Sarcomas of bone
41.
Sarcomas of soft tissue
42. Skin cancer – non-melanoma
43. Small bowel cancer
44. Testicular cancer
45. Thyroid cancer
46.
Vaginal cancer
47. Vulval cancer
Section three – Complications of cancer and emergencies
48. Bone metastases
49.
Brain metastases
50. Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis
51. Liver metastases
52. Malignant ascites
53. Malignant bowel obstruction
54.
Malignant pericardial effusions
55. Malignant pleural effusions
56. Metabolic problems in cancer
57. Paraneoplastic syndromes
58.
Problems in advanced pelvic malignancy
59. Pulmonary metastases
60. Spinal cord compression
61. Superior vena cava obstruction
Appendix
1.
Normal tissue tolerances to radiotherapy
2. A-Z of commonly used chemotherapy drugs
3. Useful oncology related websites
4.
Performance status
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 320 pages, publication date: FEB-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8836-9
ISBN-10: 0-7506-8836-X
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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Last update: 30 Oct 2009
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