Textbook of Uncommon Cancer

by Raghavan, Derek; Blanke, Charles; Johnson, David H.; Moots, Paul L.; Reaman, Gregory H.; Rose, Peter G.; Sekeres, Mikkael A.

• ISBN13: 9781118083734
• ISBN10: 1118083733
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-13
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The only self-contained guide for practicing oncologists who treat patients with rare or infrequently encountered malignancies, this up-to-date resource offers a balanced, authoritative approach to the management of uncommon cancers. Now in its fourth edition, the book is thoroughly revised, including new material as well as new focus on evidence-based research and clinical practice throughout. Clinicians will find guidelines for addressing management issues, gain insight into real-world clinical decision-making, and save umpteen hours of research through the use of this widely acclaimed, comprehensive guide.

Author Biography

Derek Raghavan, MD, PhD, is President of the Levine Cancer Institute of the Carolinas Healthcare System in Charlotte, North Carolina. Widely published in journals and books, Dr. Raghavan has been the editor-in-chief of Textbook of Uncommon Cancer since its second edition.

Charles D. Blanke, MD, is Chief of the Division of Oncology at the British Columbia Cancer Agency and Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

David Johnson, MD, was the longtime Director of the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and was recently appointed as Chairman of Medicine and holds the Donald W. Seldin Distinguished Chair in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas.

Paul L. Moots, M.D., Associate Professor of Neurology at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Gregory H. Reaman, M.D., is Chair of the Children's Oncology Group at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC.

Peter G. Rose, MD, is Section Head and Fellowship Director of Gynecologic Oncology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Cleveland Clinic.

Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, is Director of the Leukemia Program at the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Section 1 Genitourinary Cancer

1 Uncommon Tumors of the Kidney

Khaled Ali, Ming Zhou, Steve Campbell, Ronald M. Bukowski, and Brian I. Rini

2 Uncommon Cancers of the Bladder

Arlene O. Siefker-Radtke, Bogdan A. Czerniak, Colin P. Dinney, and Randall E. Millikan

3 Urethral Cancer

Sonia Ali, Tanya B. Dorf, Paul G. Pagnini, and David I. Quinn

4 Uncommon Cancers of the Prostate

Scott T. Tagawa, Naveed H. Akhtar, Brian D. Robinson, and Himisha Beltran

5 Rare Tumors of the Testis and Paratesticular Tissues

Robert Huddart, Stephen Hazell, and Alan Horwich

Section 2 Head and Neck Cancer

6 Uncommon Tumors of the Oral Cavity and Adjacent Structures

Voichita Bar-Ad, Madalina Tuluc, David Cognetti, and Rita Axelrod

7 Rare Tumors of the Larynx

Kyle Mannion, Keneth J. Niermann, Joseph M. Aulino, and Barbara A. Murphy

8 Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma in Nonendemic Populations

June Corry and Bonnie Glisson

9 Esthesioneuroblastoma

Barbara A. Murphy, Salyka Sengsayadeth, Joseph M. Aulino, Christine H. Chung, Kim Ely, Robert Sinard,and Anthony J. Cmelak

Section 3 Endocrine Tumors

10 Adrenal Neoplasms

Alexandria T. Phan, Mouhammed Habbra, Elizabeth Grubbs, and Cesar Moran

11 Uncommon Cancers of the Thyroid

Sonia Abuzakhm, Mark Bloomston, and Manisha H. Shah

12 Parathyroid Carcinoma

Rodrigo Arrangoiz and John A. Ridge

Section 4 Breast Cancer

13 Metaplastic Breast Carcinoma

Ingrid A. Mayer, Helenice Gobbi, and A. Bapsi Chakravarthy

14 Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma of the Breast

Melinda E. Sanders, Masako Kasami, Julie Means-Powell, and David L. Page

15 Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma of the Breast

David S. Morgan and Jean F. Simpson

16 Male Breast Cancer

Nicole M. Randall, Kathy D. Miller, and George W. Sledge Jr

17 Phyllodes Tumor of the Breast

Emad A. Rakha and Ian O. Ellis

18 Carcinosarcoma of the Breast

Stacy L. Moulder, Bryan T. Hennessy, Michael Z. Gilcrease, Gildy Babiera, Wei Yang, Vicente Valero, and Gabriel N. Hortobagyi

19 Tubular Carcinoma

Melinda E. Sanders, Ingrid A. Mayer, and A. Bapsi Chakravarthy

 Section 5 Thoracic Tumors

20 Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma

Patrick J. Loehrer, Mark R. Wick, and Sunil Badve

21 Primary Sarcomas of the Lung

Regan M. Duffy, Amanda VanSandt, and Alan B. Sandler

22 Mesotheliomas

Giuseppe Giaccone, Anish Thomas, and Arun Rajan

23 Primary Melanoma of the Lung

Richard A. Scolyer, James F. Bishop, and John F. Thompson

24 Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma

William D. Travis, M. Catherine Pietanza, and Inderpal (Netu) S. Sarkaria

25 Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma of the Lung

Gregory J. Riely and Vincent A. Miller

26 Primary Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma of the Lung

John G. Devlin and Corey J. Langer

Section 6 Gastrointestinal Tumors

27 Uncommon Tumors of the Esophagus

Lawrence Leichman and Robert Rosser

28 Uncommon Cancers of the Stomach

Elizabeta Popa, Felice Schnoll-Sussman, Arun Jesudian, Govind Nandakumar, and Manisha H. Shah

29 Unusual Cancers of the Pancreas

Chanjuan Shi and John S. Macdonald and Jordan D. Berlin

30 Uncommon Hepatobiliary Tumors

Abby B. Siegel, Vladmir Sheynzon, and Benjamin Samstein

31 Cancers of the Small Bowel

Kanwal Raghav, Mathew H. G. Katz, and Michael J. Overman

32 Unusual Tumors of the Colon, Rectum, and Anus

Diane Reidy-Lagunes, Karyn Goodman, and Leonard B. Saltz

33 Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors

Margaret von Mehren, Douglas B. Flieder, and Chandrajit P. Raut

Section 7 Gynecological Cancers 

34 Extraovarian Primary Peritoneal Carcinomas

Alberto E. Selman and Larry J. Copeland

35 Borderline Tumors and Other Rare Epithelial Tumors of the Ovary

Ramez N. Eskander, Teresa P. Díaz-Montes, Russell Vang,

Deborah K. Armstrong, and Robert E. Bristow

36 Stromal Tumors of the Ovary

Jubilee Brown, Anuja Jhingran, and Michael Deavers

37 Germ Cell Tumors of the Ovary

Daniela E. Matei, Jeanne M. Schilder, and Helen Michael

38 Fallopian Tube Cancer

Destin Black and Richard R. Barakat

39 Nonendometrioid Endometrial Carcinomas and Uterine Sarcomas

Peter G. Rose and Charles Biscotti

40 Tumors of the Cervix

Krishnansu S. Tewari and Bradley J. Monk

41 Tumors of the Vulva and Vagina

Joshua P. Kesterson and Shashikant B. Lele

Section 8 Hematological Malignancies

42 Rare Acute Leukemias

B. Douglas Smith and E. Cho

43 Unusual Myelodysplastic Syndromes and

Myeloproliferative Neoplasms

Eric Padron and Rami Komrokji

44 Rare B Cell Lymphoproliferative Disorders

Paul M. Barr and Jonathan W. Friedberg

45 Uncommon Presentations of Plasma Cell Dyscrasias

Rachid Baz and Mohamad A. Hussein

46 Rare Bone Marrow Failure Conditions

Valeria Visconte and Ramon Tiu

47 Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Polycythemia Vera, Essential Thrombocythemia, and Primary Myelofibrosis

Raoul Tibes, Gurcharan Karnail Singh, and Ruben A. Mesa

48 Rare T Cell Lymphomas

Aleksandr Lazaryan and John Sweetenham

Section 9 Cutaneous Malignancies

49 Unusual Cutaneous Malignancies

Sara Peters and Thomas Olencki

50 Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans

Michael Alvarado, Jane L. Messina, Rahel Mathew, and Vernon K. Sondak

51 Unusual Melanomas

Omid Hamid, Donald L. Morton, Richard D. Carvajal, and Mark Faries

Section 10 Neurological Malignancies

52 Primary Melanotic Tumors of the Central Nervous System

L. Burt Nabors, Li Rong, Cheryl A. Palmer, and Philip R. Chapman

53 Langerhans’ Cell Histiocytosis of the Central Nervous System

Rima F. Jubran and Jonathan L. Finlay

54 Chordomas

Herbert B. Newton

55 Atypical and Malignant Meningiomas

George A. Alexiou, Samer E. Kaba, and Athanassios P. Kyritsis

56 Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma

Lisa M. DeAngelis

57 Choroid Plexus Papilloma and Carcinoma

Derek R. Johnson and Julie E. Hammack

58 Glioma and other Neuroepithelial Neoplasms

Kevin T. Palka, Bret Mobley, Stephanie Perkins, Michael Cooper, Allen K. Sills, and Paul L. Moots

59 Medulloblastoma in Adults

Paul L. Moots and Anna Marie Kenney

60 Pineal Parenchymal Tumors

Shota Tanaka, Stephen W. Clark, and Patrick Y. Wen

61 Craniopharyngiomas

Gazanfar Rahmathulla, John Park, and Gene H. Barnett

62 Ophthalmic Cancers

Maria Choudhary and Arun D. Singh

Section 11 Pediatric Malignancies

63 Introduction to Rare Cancers of Childhood

Alberto S. Pappo and Gregory H. Reaman

64 Uncommon Tumors of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Children

Alberto S. Pappo and Wayne L. Furman

65 Rare Pediatric Malignancies of the Head and Neck

Cynthia E. Herzog, Michael Kupferman, Winston Huh, and Anita Mahajan

66 Uncommon Pediatric Tumors of the Thorax

Yoav H. Messinger, Kris Ann P. Schultz, and Louis P. Dehner

67 Uncommon Endocrine Tumors in Children and Adolescents

Raul C. Ribeiro, Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo,

Emilia M. Pinto, Gerard P. Zambetti, and Bonald C. Figueiredo

68 Uncommon Pediatric Genitourinary Tumors

Barbara Bambach, Hans G. Pohl, and Jeffrey S. Dome

69 Uncommon Pediatric Brain Tumors

Robert C. Castellino, Matthew Schniederjan, and Tobey J. MacDonald

70 Malignant Tumors of the Skin and Subcutaneous

Tissue in Children

Alberto S. Pappo and Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo

Index