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Image-Guided Radiotherapy of Lung Cancer
from: Informa HealthCare
: :Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States, but IGRT (image guided radiation therapy) offers the possibility of more aggressive and enhanced treatments. The only available source on the subject that emphasizes new imaging techniques, and provides step-by-step treatment guidelines for lung cancer, this source helps clinicians locate and target tumors with enhanced speed, improve the accuracy of radiation delivery, and correctly target cancerous masses while avoiding surrounding structures.
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Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies (Recent Results in Cancer Research)
from: Springer
: :In the age of the World Wide Web, informed patients continue to surprise oncologists with detailed questions about popular tumor therapies. Although minimally invasive tumor therapies (MITT) have become daily clinical practice for palliative treatment of liver tumors, the acceptance of these palliative modalities still varies enormously. In addition, promising results have been published for in situ ablation of lung metastases, bone tumors, and renal cell carcinoma. This book gives an up-to-date overview of the popular techniques and clinical results of MITT, with a clarification of the actual indications including the size, ...
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Controversies in Lung Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Bco Basic and Clinical Oncology)
: : Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA. Reviews, expands on, and illustrates the success of the relationship between the basic science and the clinical researcher regard to studies in oncology. Takes a multidisciplinary approach to current controversies and dilemmas in lung cancer research.
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Management of Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics (The Clinics: Surgery)
: : Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA. Reviews, expands on, and illustrates the success of the relationship between the basic science and the clinical researcher regard to studies in oncology. Takes a multidisciplinary approach to current controversies and dilemmas in lung cancer research.
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Lung Cancer (Contemporary Issues in Cancer Imaging)
from: Cambridge University Press
: :Despite the world-wide drive to increase awareness of the risks of smoking, lung cancer remains a global problem. A multidisciplinary team approach is now considered the most effective way to manage lung cancer. Imaging plays a central role in this multidisciplinary approach; this is reflected in the present volume. Individual chapters focus on imaging (including screening, diagnosis of symptomatic cases and staging), pathology and treatment options in lung cancer. Due to recent interest in the potential role of PET for a variety of malignancies, a separate chapter is devoted to this technique. ...
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Lung Tumors: Fundamental Biology and Clinical Management (Lung Biology in Health and Disease)
from: Marcel Dekker
: :Addresses new approaches to the diagnosis, management, and treament of lung tumors, providing the insights of fundamental biologists, surgical pathologists, and clinicians. Details the key factors of lung tumor carcinogenesis, analyzes multimodality treatments using chemotherapy and fractionated radiotherapy, reviews telomerase activation as well as the p53 and Rb pathways, and more.
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Textbook of Lung Cancer, Second Edition
from: Informa HealthCare
: :Textbook of Lung Cancer, 2nd edition, published in association with the European Society of Medical Oncology, is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary text, which examines all aspects of this disease, with contributions from a multinational team of authors on etiology, epidemiology, molecular biology, pathology, smoking, detection and management, clinical features, staging and prognostic factors, surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. It provides essential information and guidance for specialist trainees in oncology, and for the many physicians and specialists involved in the field of lung cancer.
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Lung Cancer: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Handbook (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Handbooks)
from: Mosby
: :Written by highly eminent authors, Lung Cancer - a handbook in the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute series - is produced in full color and is richly illustrated throughout, providing a review of each cancer including its incidence, epidemiology, etiology and histopathology, together with the clinical features. Diagnostic studies and current clinical and pathological staging are also given. Detailed tables are provided with histopathological classification, diagnostic studies and, when important, prognostic factors. Current therapies are also discussed in detail, particularly the management of metastatic lung disease in the context of new and emerging treatments.Comprehensive ...
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The Stuff of Life: A Daughter's Memoir
: :As a generation of baby boomers faces the aging of their parents, Karen Karbo's resonant new memoir tells the intimate story of one stoic father and wiseacre grown-up daughter navigating the last months of his life.When Karen Karbo's father, a charming, taciturn Clint Eastwood type who lives in a triple-wide in the Nevada desert, is diagnosed with lung cancer, his only daughter rises to the challenge of caring for him. Neither of them is exactly cut out for the job. Karen is a Doc Marten-sporting freelance writer who lives in Portland, Oregon, ...
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Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma
: :As a generation of baby boomers faces the aging of their parents, Karen Karbo's resonant new memoir tells the intimate story of one stoic father and wiseacre grown-up daughter navigating the last months of his life.When Karen Karbo's father, a charming, taciturn Clint Eastwood type who lives in a triple-wide in the Nevada desert, is diagnosed with lung cancer, his only daughter rises to the challenge of caring for him. Neither of them is exactly cut out for the job. Karen is a Doc Marten-sporting freelance writer who lives in Portland, Oregon, ...
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