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9780071411899

Harrison's Manual of Oncology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780071411899

  • ISBN10:

    0071411895

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-11-11
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
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Summary

The full spectrum of oncology medications -- backed by the authority ofHarrison's!From today's leading clinicians in cancer care comes this comprehensive yet portable guide to the major chemotherapeutic and supportive care agents in oncology. Full of never-before-published content, this invaluable clinical companion features numerous tables and a concise, outline-oriented text, making it ideal for reference at a glance. Features:: A complete overview of all medications used in cancer care, including hormonal agents and biologic response modifiers Tables and templated format clearly highlight each drug and its companion regimen Clinically relevant and prescriptive approach emphasizes precise dosing regimens and potential combinations for tailoring multi-drug regimens Section on supportive and palliative care A review of high-dose therapy and bone marrow transplant Content that goes beyond the treatment of primary or metastatic disease to encompass the treatment of all therapeutic complications

Author Biography

Bruce Chabner, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;Clinical Director, MGH Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Dan L. Longo, MD ,Scientific Director, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Table of Contents

1. The Management of Patients with Cancer

2. Principles of Patient Management (Staging, Importance of Tissue, etc)

3. Supportive and Palliative Care (Symptom management, nausea, depression, pain, effusions, thrombosis prevention/treatment, infection prophylaxis, CSFs)

4. Late Effects of Cancer and Its Treatment

5. Specific Diseases

6. Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers

7. Head and Neck Cancer (including salivary glands)

8. Thyroid Cancer

9. Lung Tumors

10. Breast Tumors

11. Gastrointestinal Tract Tumors (esophagus, stomach, small and large bowel, rectal)

12. Tumors of the Liver and Biliary Tract

13. Pancreatic Cancer

14. Endocrine Tumors of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Pancreas

15. Bladder and Renal Cell Cancer

16. Prostate Cancer

17. Testicular Cancer

18. Gynecologic Malignancies (endometrial, cervical, ovarian, fallopian tube, gestational)

19. Sarcomas

20. Cancer of Unknown Primary Site

21. Primary and Metastatic Cancer involving the CNS

22. Acute Myeloid Leukemia (to include APL, but not rare myeloid leukemias like erythro- leukemia and other WHO entities)

23. Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

24. Acute Lymphoid Leukemia (to include Burkitts) Chronic Lymphoid Leukemias (to include hairy cell leukemia but NOT the rare lymphoid leukemias like NK cell, T-CLL)

25. Lymphoid Malignancies (the most common forms only)

26. Follicular lymphoma

27. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

28. Mantle cell lymphoma

29. Gastric MALT lymphoma

30. Mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma

31. Anaplastic large T/null cell lymphoma

32. Peripheral T cell lymphoma

33. Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (Waldenstroms)

34. Multiple myeloma and its related tumors

35. Hodgkins disease

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