Oxford Handbook of Oncology

by Cassidy, Jim; Bissett, Donald; Spence, Roy; Payne, Miranda

• ISBN13: 9780198567875
• ISBN10: 0198567871
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Explorers forged the infrastructure of global history, first by finding the routes of migration that sundered human cultures, then - after millennia of divergence - by finding the routes that linked them up again.Pathfinders tells the epic story of how the route-finders did it: who they were, where they came from, where they went, how they coped with the unknown, how they developed the techniques and technologies they needed, how they paid for it, how they suffered for it, and - perhaps most curious of all - why they bothered.From the earliest migratory wanderings that scattered human societies across the planet to the great voyages of discovery that started linking them up again, and finally to the conquering of the final geographical frontiers in the twentieth century, Fernández-Armesto reveals the real flesh-and-blood, the vainglory and fantasy that motivated the pathfinders of the world.

Table of Contents

Background

Multidisciplinary approach to cancer

Aetiology and epidemiology of cancer

Genetics of cancer

Principles of treatment

Surgical oncology

Principles of radiation oncology

Principles of chemotherapy

Late effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy

Hormone therapy

Biological therapies

Principles of cancer clinical trials, cancer prevention and screening

Clinical trials

Cancer prevention and screening

Specific types of cancer

Thoracic cancer

Breast cancer

Colorectal cancer

Anal cancer

Upper gastrointestinal cancer

Endocrine cancers

Genitourinary cancers

Gynaecological cancer

Head and neck cancer

Tumours of the central nervous system

Skin cancer

Haematological malignancies

Bone and soft tissue malignancies

Cancer of unknown primary site

Paraneoplastic syndromes

AIDS-related malignancies

Symptom control in oncology

Principles of palliative care

The way forward

Novel therapeutic strategies

Gene therapy for cancer

Emergencies in oncology

Spinal cord compression

Bone marrow suppression

Superior vena cava obstruction

Raised intracranial pressure

Stridor

Thromboembolic and cardiac emergencies

Obstruction

Biochemical crises

Anaphylaxis

Complications of central venous lines

Chemotherapy extravasation

Appendices

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