Gastrointestinal Cancer (eBook)

Jaffer A. Ajani, Steven A. Curley, Nora A. Janjan, Patrick M. Lynch (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2007 | 2005
XVI, 400 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-0-387-27285-6 (ISBN)

Infos

- This clinical guidebook allows for quick, authoritative access to the latest and best multimodality therapies

- Includes AJCC staging of gastrointestinal malignancies

- Each chapter ends with an up-to-date list of suggested readings and 'key practice points' making it a usefuly at-a-glance reference

- Text includes 80 illustrations 

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Gastrointestinal cancer includes cancer of the digestive system - the esophagus, colon, rectum, anus, liver, pancreas, and other digestive organs. Taken as a whole, there are an estimated 250,600 new cases in the US. Colon and rectum cancer is the third leading cause of cancer and cancer deaths in the US.Gastrointestinal Cancer is the third volume in the M.D. Anderson Cancer Care series, featuring the current standard approach to GI cancer care from the experts at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.Designed for the practicing oncologist, this clinical guidebook allows for quick, authoritative access to the latest and best multimodality therapies. Topics covered in this volume include AJCC staging of gastrointestinal malignancies, recent advances in histopathology of gastroinestinal cancers, imaging techniques and endoscopy in the management of GI malignancies, colorectal cancer, liver cancer, gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, anal cancer, and palliative therapy. Each of the 20 chapters ends with an up-to-date list of suggested readings, as well as "e;key practice points"e; highlighting the most principles and practices of each chapter for at-a-glance reference. More than 80 illustrations complement the text. This thorough, practical volume is the essential clinical guide for the oncologists, surgeons, and all physicians involved in the care of patients with GI cancer.

Inhalt

FOREWORD 5
SERIES PREFACE 6
CONTENTS 7
CONTRIBUTORS 10
1 STAGING OF GASTROINTESTINAL MALIGNANCIES 13
2 RECENT ADVANCES IN HISTOPATHOLOGY OF GASTROINTESTINAL CANCERS: PROGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC ASSESSMENT OF COLORECTAL CANCERS 26
3 CURRENT STATUS OF IMAGING TECHNIQUES IN GASTROINTESTINAL CANCERS 40
4 ENDOSCOPY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF GASTROINTESTINAL MALIGNANCIES 55
5 ROLE OF LAPAROSCOPY IN GASTROINTESTINAL MALIGNANCIES 70
6 RISK FACTORS FOR COLORECTAL CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY 79
7 COLORECTAL CANCER: SCREENING AND PRIMARY PREVENTION 97
8 HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS COLORECTAL CANCER AND GENETIC COUNSELING 116
9 COLON CANCER 123
10 RECTAL CANCER 149
11 METASTATIC CANCER OF THE LIVER 177
12 STAGING AND THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES FOR PATIENTS WITH LOCALIZED, POTENTIALLY CURABLE PANCREATIC ADENOCARCINOMA 196
13 TREATMENT OF PRIMARY LIVER CANCER 209
14 GASTRIC CANCER 231
15 ESOPHAGEAL CARCINOMA 244
16 ANAL CANCER 258
17 GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS 283
18 PALLIATIVE THERAPY 311
19 BOWEL MANAGEMENT IN PATIENTS WITH CANCER 325
20 BARRETT’S ESOPHAGUS 358

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.2007
• Reihe/Serie: MD Anderson Cancer Care Series
• Reihe/Serie: MD Anderson Cancer Care Series
• Vorwort: J.L. Abbruzzese, R.E. Pollock
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 400 p. 61 illus.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Gastroenterologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Anamnese / Körperliche Untersuchung
• Schlagworte: carcinoma • Diagnosis • diagnostic radiology • Endoscopy • Histopathology • Imaging • Imaging techniques • Staging • surgical oncology • Tumor
• ISBN-10: 0-387-27285-2 / 0387272852
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-27285-6 / 9780387272856