Cancer and its management /

Cancer and its management /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Tobias, Jeffrey S.
Edition:	6th ed.
Imprint:	Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Subject:	Cancer -- Treatment. Cancer -- Diagnosis. Neoplasms -- therapy. Neoplasms -- diagnosis. Cancer -- Diagnosis. Cancer -- Treatment.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8743160

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Other uniform titles:	Hochhauser, Daniel. Souhami, Robert L. Cancer and its management.
ISBN:	1444306367 (electronic bk.) 9781444306361 (electronic bk.)
Notes:	Description based on print version record. Rev. ed. of: Cancer and its management / Robert Souhami, Jeffrey Tobias. 5th ed. 2005. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:	Original 9781405170154 1405170158

Table of Contents:

1. The modern management of cancer: an introductory note
2. Epidemiology, cure, treatment trials and screening
3. Biology of cancer
4. Staging of tumours
5. Radiotherapy
6. Systemic treatment for cancer
7. Supportive care and symptom relief
8. Medical problems and radiotherapy emergencies
9. Paraneoplastic syndromes
10. Cancer of the head and neck
11. Brain and spinal cord
12. Tumours of the lung and mediastinum
13. Breast cancer
14. Cancer of the oesophagus and stomach
15. Cancer of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas
16. Tumours of the small and large bowel
17. Gynaecological cancer
18. Genitourinary cancer
19. Testicular cancer
20. Thyroid and adrenal cancer
21. Cancer from an unknown primary site
22. Skin cancer
23. Bone and soft-tissue sarcomas
24. Paediatric malignancies
25. Hodgkin's disease
26. Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas
27. Myeloma and other paraproteinaemias
28. Leukaemia
29. New biologicals