Colorectal cancer : diagnosis and clinical management /

Colorectal Cancer: Diagnosis and Clinical Management provides colorectal surgeons, gastroenterologists and oncologists with an authoritative, practical guide to best practice in the diagnosis and clinical management of colorectal cancer. Covering all forms of treatment including surgery, chemotherap...

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Group Author: Scholefield, John H.; Eng, Cathy
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,
Publisher Address: Chichester, West Sussex, UK :
Publication Dates: 2014.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118337929
Summary: Colorectal Cancer: Diagnosis and Clinical Management provides colorectal surgeons, gastroenterologists and oncologists with an authoritative, practical guide to best practice in the diagnosis and clinical management of colorectal cancer. Covering all forms of treatment including surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, it examines the various new and emerging therapies, new strategies for screening and prevention, as well as the latest guidance on the most challenging and controversial aspects of managing colorectal cancer. The authors present important information on: Controversies in adjuv
Carrier Form: 1 online resource.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781118337899 (epub)
1118337891 (epub)
9781118337912 (pdf)
1118337913 (pdf)
9781118337905 ( mobi)
1118337905 ( mobi)
Index Number: RC280
CLC: R737.9
Contents: Epidemiology / Mala Pande and Marsha L. Frazier -- Screening for colorectal cancer / Robert J.C. Steele and Paula MacDonald -- Management of adenomas / Sunil Dolwani, Rajvinder Singh, Noriya Uedo and Krish Ragunath -- How histopathology affects the management of the multidisciplinary team / Dipen Maru -- Radical colonic resection / Kenichi Sugihara, Yusuke Kinugasa, Shunsuke Tsukamoto -- Extralevator abdominoperineal excision (ELAPE) for advanced low rectal cancer / Brendan J. Moran and Timothy J. Moore -- Neoadjuvant therapy without surgery for early stage rectal cancer? / Thomas D. Pinkney, Simon P. Bach -- Minimally invasive surgery for rectal cancer and robotics / David Jayne & Gregory Taylor -- Surgery for anal cancer / John H. Scholefield -- Controversies in adjuvant chemotherapy / Stephen Staal, Carmen Allegra -- Long versus short course radiotherapy for rectal cancer / Manisha Palta, Christopher Willett & Brian Czito -- More treatment is not necessarily better, limited options for chemotherapeutic radiosensitization / Daedong Kim -- Controversies in advanced disease/surgical approaches for metastatic resection / Amanda B. Cooper, Thomas A. Aloia, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, Steven A. Curley -- Controversies in chemotherapy in advanced colorectal cancer / Ludmila Katherine Martin and Tanios Bekaii-Saab -- What is the role of surveillance for colorectal cancer? / Daedong Kim -- The younger patient with colorectal cancer : genetic counseling discussion / Sarah A. Bannon, Maureen E. Mork and Miguel A. Rodriguez-Bigas -- Best practices of supportive care while receiving chemotherapy : anti-emetics, diarrhea, anorexia, dermatologic recommendations / Maura Polansky -- Palliative care vignettes / Jenny Wei and Egidio Del Fabbro.