Lung Cancer, An Issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics

In this issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, Guest Editor Mark Krasna and colleagues discuss a wide range of topics devoted to lung cancer. Articles focus on pathology; updated staging systems; epidemiology of lung cancer - smoking, second hand smoke, and genetics; molecular markers for incidence, prognosis, and response to therapy; screening; diagnostic work-up; non-invasive staging techniques; surgical resection; the role of surgery following induction therapy for stage III NSCLC; the role of adjuvant chemotherapy in NSCLC (stages I-III); and much more.

About the author

Corporate Medical Director of Oncology, Clinical Professor of Surgery, Rutgers-RobertWood Johnson Medical School, Meridian Cancer Care, Jersey Shore University MedicalCenter, Neptune, New Jersey

Product details

• Authors: Mark J Krasna, Mark J. Krasna, Mark J. Krasna
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2011
• EAN: 9781455708048
• ISBN: 978-1-4557-0804-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 430 g
• Series: The Clinics: Surgery
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine, Oncology, surgical oncology, Respiratory medicine, MEDICAL / Oncology / General, MEDICAL / Surgery / Oncology