Screen LibraryCancer and its management /
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| Published: |
Wiley Blackwell,
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| Publisher Address: | Chichester, West Sussex, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Seventh edition. |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 608 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), 1 map (black and white), forms ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781118468739 (paperback) : 1118468732 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | RC270 |
| CLC: | R730.4 |
| Call Number: | R730.4/S721/7th ed. |
| Contents: | The modern management of cancer: an introductory note -- Epidemiology, cure, treatment trials and screening -- Biology of cancer -- Staging of tumors -- Radiotherapy -- Systematic treatment for cancer -- Supportive care and symptom relief -- Medical problems and radiotherapy emergencies -- Paraneoplastic syndromes -- Cancer of the head and neck -- Brain and spinal cord -- Tumours of the lung and mediastinum -- Breast cancer -- Cancer of the oesophagus and stomach -- Cancer of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas -- Tumours of the small and large bowel -- Gynaecological cancer -- Genitourinary cancer -- Testicular cancer -- Thyroid and adrenal cancer -- Cancer from an unknown primary site -- Skin cancer -- Bone and soft-tissue sarcomas -- Paediatric malignancies -- Hodgkin's lymphoma -- Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas -- Myeloma and other paraproteinaemias -- Leukaemia. |