Gastric Cancer

Informationen zum Autor Richard M. Gore is Professor of Radiology, Evanston Hospital, Northwestern University Medical School, Illinois, USA. Klappentext Highly illustrated clinical review of diagnosis, staging and treatment of gastric cancer by expert multidisciplinary author team for wide readership. Zusammenfassung Gastric cancer is the second most common malignancy worldwide and has a grim prognosis. Early diagnosis and correct staging is essential to improve outcome. All imaging modalities used in diagnosis! staging and follow-up are reviewed! discussing their strengths and weaknesses; the most recent treatment options are also discussed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors; Preface to Gastric Cancer; 1. Epidemiology of gastric cancer Mark E. Lockhart and Cheri L. Canon; 2. Pathology of gastric cancer Curtis R. Hall; 3. Endoscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of gastric cancer Hiroyuki Osawa and Hinronori Yamamoto; 4. Upper GI series in the diagnosis of gastric cancer Marc S. Levine; 5. Surgical management of gastric cancer Marshall Baker, Mark Talamonti and Malcolm M. Bilimoria; 6. Systemic therapy for gastric cancer Janardan D. Khandekar and Melin Khandekar; 7. MDCT, EUS, PET/CT, and MRI in the management of patients with gastric neoplasms Richard M. Gore, Jung Hoon Kim and Chiao-Yun Chen; 8. Gastric cancer: current trends and future opportunities Richard M. Gore, Huan Zhang, Chiao-Yun Chen and Kenjiro Yasuda; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Richard M. (Northwestern University Medical Gore
• Assisted by: Richard M Gore (Editor), Richard M. (Northwestern University Medical School Gore (Editor), Gore Richard M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521513838
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51383-8
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Contemporary Issues in Cancer Imaging
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Radiology, MEDICAL / Diagnostic Imaging / General, MEDICAL / Radiology, Radiotherapy & Nuclear Medicine, Oncology, Gastroenterology, Medical imaging