Cancer Management in Man. Chemotherapy, Biological Therapy, Hyperthermia and Supporting Measures
Edited by Boris R. Minev 2011
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Cancer and Energy Balance, Epidemiology and Overview
Nathan A. Berger Editor 2010 In a series of landmark articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine [1, 2] and Nature Reviews [3] between 1999 and 2004, Dr. Eugenia “Jeanne” Calle alerted the entire scientific and medical community to the epidemiologic evidence providing definitive support for the association between body mass, all cause mortality, and cancer mortality. […]
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Vinata B. Lokeshwar ● Axel S. Merseburger Stefan H. Hautmann Editors 2011 Molecular Aspects and Clinical Management Bladder cancer is a common cancer of the urinary tract. It is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death among men and the seventh among women. Clinical management of bladder cancer is challenging because of the heterogeneity among bladder tumors with […]
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Murat Beyzadeoglu • Gokhan Ozyigit • Cuneyt Ebruli 2010 The aim of writing Basic Radiation Oncology was to provide a structured overview of the theory and practice of radiation oncology, including the principles of radiation physics, radiation biology and clinical radiation oncology. We have encompassed the fundamental aspects of radiation physics, radiobiology, and clinical radiation oncology. In the […]
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Deborah F. MacFarlane Editor 2010 The concept behind this book was to provide something eminently practical, to address some of the questions I, and others, have encountered over the years, but haven’t readily found answers for. I wanted experts in their fields to put on paper the pearls of their wisdom, to give us the laser settings, the […]
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Edited by Wen-Sheng Wu Chi-Tan Hu 2010 Cancer remains to be one of the most devastating diseases world wide since long ago. The poor prognosis of cancer is largely due to metastasis. Metastasis is often depicted as a multistage process in which malignant cells spread from the primary locus to distant organs via circulation.
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Daniel C. Chung ● Daniel A. Haber Editors 2010 Cancer is fundamentally a genetic disorder, and the rapid accumulation of insights into the broad spectrum of genetic alterations that underlie human cancers has been staggering. Equally exciting has been the translation of many of these insights into the clinical management of patients with cancer or at high risk […]
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Shi-Ming Tu 2010 Clinical Perspectives and Implications of a Stem-Cell Theory of Cancer This book is a treatise about the origin of cancers. I would like to convince readers that the basic tenets of the theory of a stem-cell origin of cancers also constitute a unified theory of cancer.
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Renzo Brun del Re (Ed.) 2010
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Eggert Stockfl eth Ted Rosen Stephen Shumack (Eds.) 2010 Skin cancer represents the most common cancer in humans, and we are currently facing increasing rates of newly diagnosed cutaneous neoplasm each year. The high incidence of skin cancer is a worldwide problem and millions of people are affected in different continents.
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