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From the world renowned Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, this book is written for all physicians who treat patients with acute or chronic leukemias or myelodysplasia. It is designed to answer questions about treatment approaches that commonly arise in day-to-day...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2011-12-18
Collection :
Contemporary Hematology
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Melanoma is an increasingly important public health problem. Although the cause of most malignant melanomas – over-exposure to ultraviolet light – is well known, effective treatment has remained challenging.The past several years have been marked by extraordinary...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2011-12-15
Collection :
Current Clinical Oncology
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Cancer is one of the most rapidly changing areas of medicine, affecting ever-increasing numbers of people, and this new edition of Lecture Notes: Oncology brings together all the information a medical student or graduate clinician needs in one accessible volume. It...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-11-28
Collection :
Lecture Notes
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Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations. It has stood for the horror of cancer, the curse of femininity, the hope of cutting-edge medical technologies and the promise of screening for malignant tumours. For a long time, this disease was...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-11-10
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The American Cancer Society recently estimated that about 45,000 new cases of thyroid cancer will be diagnosed in the United States, with three-quarters occurring in women. The overall 5-year survival rate is about 97%, making it one of the least lethal cancers. We are...
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Springer
Parution :
2011-11-09
ePub
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The pituitary gland is an important one since it controls several of the other hormone glands, such as the thyroid and adrenals. A pituitary adenoma is an abnormal growth or tumor in this gland, and they are the subject of very active clinical and pathological...
Editeur :
Elsevier Science
Parution :
2011-10-31
epub sans DRM
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Cancer Epigenetics: Biomolecular Therapeutics in HumanCancer is the only resource to focus on biomolecular approaches to cancer therapy. Its presentation of the latest research in cancer biology reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the field and aims to facilitate...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-10-07
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The Elephant in the Room is a collection of short stories that creatively communicate the cancer patient’s journey.The stories, based on real-life accounts, are built around the idiosyncratic relationships between patients and their doctors. Using humor, empathy and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-09-28
ePub
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Inflammation in gastrointestinal mucosa can remodel the topography of the overlying epithelium. If such inflammation is chronic, it has fundamental clinical consequences, the principal of which is premalignant metaplasia throughout the alimentary tract. Furthermore,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-08-08
ePub
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The concept of using bispecific antibodies for cancer therapy by retargeting immune effector cells was developed several years ago. Initial clinical studies were rather disappointing mainly due to low efficacy, severe side effects and the immunogenicity of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-07-21
ePub
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This new textbook has an international authorship and is a practical, up-to-date resource for clinicians responsible for the care of children with oncologic and malignant hematologic disease. It is specifically designed for practicing oncologists and hematologists,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-20
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The book provides comprehensive insights into molecular changes in malignant melanoma.The general mechanisms of melanoma growth and development are described, as well as new research findings. Our current knowledge on the molecules involved in cell transformation and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-06-24
ePub
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Induction chemotherapy, as part of an integrated plan of management for locally advanced cancers, is being practiced throughout the world, but frequently teams are unaware of the work being undertaken in other institutions. This book aims to present the full range of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-05-16
ePub
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This new book by international experts in psycho-oncology has arisen from the teaching academies offered by the International Psycho-oncology Society. It distills the wisdom and experience from the training manuals dedicated to individual psychological therapies and...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-05-03
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Nutritional oncology is an increasingly active interdisciplinary field where cancer is investigated as both a systemic and local disease originating with the changes in the genome and progressing through a multi-step process which may be influenced at many points in its...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2011-05-02
epub sans DRM
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There has been major growth in understanding immune suppression mechanisms and its relationship to cancer progression and therapy. This book highlights emerging new principles of immune suppression that drive cancer and it offers radically new ideas about how therapy...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2011-04-28
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Nearly 25 years of intensive research have uncovered many diverse functions for the dimeric transcription factor known as NF-kappaB (nuclear factor-kappaB). NF-kappaB affects most aspects of cellular physiology—from immunity and inflammation to apoptosis, cell survival,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-04-26
Collection :
Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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Multiple myeloma is currently still an incurable disease, but during the past decade knowledge of its molecular pathogenesis has increased rapidly. This has led to remarkable progress in both diagnosis and therapy, including in particular the approval of novel and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-04-21
ePub
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The therapeutic landscape in oncology has undergone momentous changes in recent years.The treatment options for gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, in particular, have increased with the introduction of novel pharmacological and other treatment modalities. Researchers have...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-04-18
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The rationale for using intraoperative irradiation (IORT) is based on the realization that tolerable doses of eternal beam radiation are often insufficient to achieve control of locally advanced malignancies. In these instances, the IORT component of treatment becomes...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2011-04-15
ePub
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