ALERT-- Adverse Late Effects of Cancer Treatment. Volume 2, Normal Tissue Specific Sites and Systems /
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Imprint: | Heidelberg : Springer, 2014. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 700 pages). |
Language: | English |
Series: | Medical radiology Medical radiology (Series) |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11082109 |
Varying Form of Title: | Adverse Late Effects of Cancer Treatment. Volume 2, Normal Tissue Specific Sites and Systems Normal Tissue Specific Sites and Systems |
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Other authors / contributors: | Rubin, Philip, 1927- editor. Constine, Louis S., editor. Marks, Lawrence (Lawrence B.), editor. |
ISBN: | 9783540758631 3540758631 9783540758624 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references. Print version record. |
Summary: | The literature on the late effects of cancer treatment is widely scattered in different journals since all major organ systems are affected and management is based on a variety of medical and surgical treatments. The aim of ALERT Adverse Late Effects of Cancer Treatment is to offer a coherent multidisciplinary approach to the care of cancer survivors. The central paradigm is that cytotoxic multimodal therapy results in a perpetual cascade of events that affects each major organ system differently and is expressed continually over time. Essentially, radiation and chemotherapy are intense biologic modifiers that allow for cancer cure and cancer survivorship but accelerate senescence of normal tissues and increase the incidence of age-related diseases and second malignant tumors. Volume 2 of this two-volume work comprehensively documents potential late effects in all the normal tissue anatomic sites in the human body. The detection, diagnosis, management and prevention of effects are all considered in detail, and prognostic outcomes are discussed. Radiation risk factors and interactions with chemotherapy effects are clearly presented. The text is accompanied by numerous supportive illustrations and tables. |
Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-540-75863-1 |
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