The MD Anderson Manual of Medical Oncology, Fourth Edition

Expert, hands-on guidance for the practicing oncologist-from the leader in the field of cancer management-completely updated to reflect the latest advances
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Comprehensive and authoritative, The MD Anderson Manual of Medical Oncology delivers everything you need to accurately diagnose and effectively treat a wide range of cancers-including leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, lung and breast cancer, genitourinary carcinoma, melanoma, and sarcoma.
This unmatched resource emphasizes practical, actionable steps to cancer treatment, providing "to the point" recommendations, chapter summary boxes, tables, charts, expert opinion and patient education boxes, practice tips, cases, and prescriptive advice. The new format of this updated edition quickly guides you to the topic, the affiliated relevant chapter, new findings affecting clinical practice, and reference/evidence.
This fourth edition features:

• NEW Q&A, cases, patient education information, and expert advice
• Expanded coverage of immunotherapy treatment-written by the 2018 Nobel Prize-winner for immunology
• Access to continually updated online content
• A comparative table with guidelines from the European Society of Medical Oncology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology
• An emphasis on recent developments in precision medicine and immunotherapies

Plus important NEW chapters on:

• Cord blood transplant
• Haploidentical cell transplantation
• Cellular therapy in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation
• Pediatric cancers
• Molecular biomarkers and cancer
• Immune-oncology
• Targeted therapies in cancer
• Applied biostatistics
• Oncocardiology
• Pulmonary complications of cancer associated thrombosis
  

List of contents

Part I: Leukemia
Section Editor:
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemiaand Associated Disorders

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

Myelodysplastic Syndromes:The MD Anderson Approach to Therapy


Part II: Lymphoma and Myeloma
Section Editor:
The Indolent Lymphomas

Aggressive and HighlyAggressive B Cell Lymphomas

T-cell Lymphomas

Hodgkin Lymphoma


Part III. Stem CellTransplantation
Section Editor:

Alternative Donor Transplants:Cord Blood Transplant

Alternative DonorTransplants-Haploidentical Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation



Part IV: Lung Cancer
Section Editor:
Small Cell Carcinoma of theLung

Non-small Cell Lung Cancer(sent in 3/6)

Part V: Head and Neck Cancer
Section Editor:
Head and Neck Cancer
Part VI: GastrointestinalCarcinomas
Section Editor: BobWolff
Gastric and Esophageal Cancer


Pancreatic Cancer

Hepatobiliary Malignancies

Small Bowel Cancer andAppendicle Tumors

Colorectal Cancer

Anal Cancer


Part VII: Breast Cancer
Section Editor:

Metastatic Breast Cancer

Special Situations in BreastCancer

Part VIII: GynecologicMalignancies
Section Editor:
Ovarian Cancer

Tumors of the Uterine Corpus

Tumorsof the Uterine Cervix
Gestational Trophoblastic Tumors


Part IX: GenitourinaryCarcinoma
Section Editor:
Renal Cell Carcinoma

Bladder Cancer

Prostate Cancer

Penile Cancer

Germ Cell Tumors


Part X. Neurologic Tumors
Section Editor:
TBD


Part XI. MalignantMelanoma and Sarcomas

Section Editor:

Malignant Melanoma
Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcomas

Part XII. Other Tumors

Section Editor:

43. Endocrine Malignancies

About the author

Hagop N. Kantarjian is a Professor of Medicine and a Medical Co-Director at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas

Product details

• Authors: Hagop Kantarjian, Hagop M Kantarjian, Hagop M. Kantarjian, Kantarjian Hagop, Alyssa G Rieber, Alyssa G. Rieber, Robert Wolff, Robert A Wolff, Robert A. Wolff, Wolff Robert
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781260467642
• ISBN: 978-1-260-46764-2
• Dimensions: 226 mm x 287 mm x 58 mm
• Weight: 3572 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Dentistry / General, dentistry