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  • Interventional Radiation Therapy

    Techniques — Brachytherapy

    Edited by Rolf Sauer ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This volume discusses the technique of operative radiation therapy known as brachytherapy. This technique has recently experienced an upswing because of the discovery of new radioisotopes and other technical developments. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Radiation Oncology of Gynecological Cancers

    Edited by Helmut W. Vahrson ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The incidence, diagnosis, and treatment of gynecologic cancer have undergone major changes during the past 20 years. In addition to significant changes in the incidence of the diseases, there has been extensive application of new technologies in the field. - While the incidence of invasive cancers of the cervix has diminished sharply, there has been a marked increase in the number of patients ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Late Sequelae in Oncology

    Edited by Jürgen Dunst, Rolf Sauer ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Increasing survival figures and the use of more intense combined treatment regimens in modern oncology have raised the problem of late therapeutic sequelae in long-term survivors after cancer. Recent scientific approaches to late sequelae concentrate on the evaluation of subclinical changes with sophisticated functional measurements and experimental investigation of the underlying ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Progress and Perspective in the Treatment of Lung Cancer

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Lung cancer is not a single disease process but is a group of biologically variable diseases. Therefore, accurate and complete diagnosis along with complete workup of the patient prior to decision-making in treatment is essential to devise the most appropriate treatment strategy. In North America adenocarcinoma of the lung now accounts for about 40% of all lung cancers and stage for stage these ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Carcinoma of the Bladder

    Innovations in Management

    by D.G. Skinner ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Bladder cancer represents a major challenge to the oncologist. In spite of new tech niques for early diagnosis and innovative imaging procedures for staging, the outcome in terms of cure has not improved during the past ten years. Fortunately, about 74% of the patients present with localized disease, with 18% presenting with localized and regional disease, and 3% with distant metastases at ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Carcinoma of the Prostate

    Innovations in Management

    by D.G. Skinner ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The American Cancer Society anticipates that during 1995, 244000 new cases of cancer of the prostate will have been diagnosed in the United States, with 40400 deaths from the disease process. The rapid increase in the actual number of new cases in the United States is directly related to more regularized digital rectal examinations and the more frequent and widespread use of prostate-specific ... Read more

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  • Age-Related Macular Degeneration

    Current Treatment Concepts

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is a frequent disease of the elderly and the most common cause of blindness. Recently, various new treatment options have become available for ARMD. This book, written by recognized experts and including the results of international study groups, provides a comprehensive report on these treatments, documenting their rationale, uses, side-effects, and ... Read more

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  • Clinical Target Volumes in Conformal and Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy

    A Clinical Guide to Cancer Treatment

    by H. Suit ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Conformal radiation therapy represents a new challenge for radiation oncologists. It offers the prospect of either increasing the radiation dose to target tissues while delivering a similar dose to organs at risk, or reducing the dose to organs at risk while maintaining the dose to target tissues. First, lymph node areas at risk are established using the available data from pathological ... Read more

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  • Radiation Oncology for Cure and Palliation

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Given that treatment with curative intent is possible in only one-half of cancer victims, and that such treatment frequently fails, the majority of patients with cancer will require relief of symptoms and signs caused by their disease. In this book, the specific contribution of radiation therapy to palliation is considered within the context of multidisciplinary management. Individual chapters are ... Read more

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  • Current Topics in Clinical Radiobiology of Tumors

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The impact of basic science radiobiological research is now being recognized of significant importance in clinical radiation oncology. Observations made in the laboratory using animals as'well as tissue culture have led to a better biologic understanding of techniques for altered fractionation, techniques for measuring tumor cell proliferation, the possi bilities and limitations of methods for ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Practical Approaches to Cancer Invasion and Metastases

    A Compendium of Radiation Oncologists’ Responses to 40 Histories

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    In the United States in 1993 the American Cancer Society estimated that there were about 1,300,000 new cases of invasive cancer diagnosed. At the time of presentation about 70% of those patients represented limited local regional disease without evidences of distant dissemination. About 30% of the patients had demonstrated metastatic disease at the time of initial diagnosis or about 390,000 ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Non-Disseminated Breast Cancer

    Controversial Issues in Management

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    In the last two decades, there has been a major increase in the actual numbers of women diagnosed with breast cancer (from 65000 new cases 20 years ago in the United States to 183000 in 1993). Concomitant with this has been a shift toward making the diagnosis earlier and toward diagnosing an earlier stage ofthe disease (more than 70% of diagnoses were of advanced-stage disease two decades ago, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD