Product Description The consummate reference source for medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, internists, surgical oncologists, and others who treat cancer patients, Cancer Medicine 8 covers the ever-widening sphere of current cancer knowledge and clinical practice. In this new 8th edition an outstanding editorial team from world-renowned medical centers continues to hone the leading edge forged in previous editions, with timely information on biology, immunology, etiology, epidemiology, prevention, screening, pathology, imaging, and therapy. The book is a testament to the editorial panel s creed--that innovative, comprehensive, multidisciplinary treatment of cancer patients must be grounded in a fundamental understanding of cancer biology. Cancer Medicine 8 does a superb job of bringing scientific principles into clinical practice. This text is the ultimate resource of new information providing the basis for better informed cancer therapy choices. Cancer Medicine 8 features hundreds of 4-color illustrations, photographs, tables, graphs and algorithms that make this text an invaluable clinical tool in recognizing characteristic appearances of both patient and tissue. The 137 tightly focused chapters are organized into 5 sections: CARDINAL MANIFESTATIONS OF CANCER; SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF CANCER; PRINCIPLES OF CANCER DIAGNOSIS; PRINCIPLES OF THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES; PRINCIPLES OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY MANAGEMENT About the Author Waun Ki Hong, MD Head and Professor, Division of Cancer Medicine American Cancer Society Professor Samsung Distinguished University Chair in Cancer Medicine The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas Donald W. Kufe, MD Professor of Medicine Dana Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School Robert C. Bast Jr, MD Vice President for Translation Research MD Anderson Cancer Center William Hait, MD, PhD Senior VP and Worldwide Head Ortho Biotech Oncology Research & Development (ORD), Johnson & Johnson Pharmceutical Research & Development Raphael E. Pollock, MD, PhD Head of the Division of Surgery, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgical Oncology, Senator A. M. Aiken, Jr. Distinguished Chair M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Ralph R. Weichselbaum, MD Daniel K. Ludwig Professor Chair Dept of Radiology and Cellular Oncology University of Chicago Hospital Director Chicago Tumor Institute James F. Holland, MD, ScD (hc) Director Emeritus, Derald H. Ruttenberg Cancer Center Mount Sinai School of Medicine Emil Frei, III, MD Physician in Chief Emeritus Dana Farber Cancer Institute
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