Lung Cancer: A Practical Approach to Evidence-Based Clinical Evaluation and Management

Get a quick, expert overview of the many key facets of lung cancer evaluation and management with this concise, practical resource by Drs. Lynn T. Tanoue and Frank Detterbeck. This easy-to-read reference presents a summary of today's best evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and management in this critical area.

List of contents

Diagnosis and Evaluation 1. The Asymptomatic Patient with a Pulmonary Nodule
2. Evaluation of the Patient with a Radiographic Abnormality Suspicious for Lung Cancer
3. Lung Cancer Classification
Treatment Considerations
4. Treatment of Early Stage NSCLC
5. Curative Intent Treatment of Stage III NSCLC
6. Advanced NSCLC
7. Treatment of Small Cell Lung Cancer
8. Special Types of Lung Cancer
9. Surveillance and Follow-Up
Organization, Quality and Efficiency of Care Delivery
10. Organization of Lung Cancer Care
11. Achieving Better Quality of Care
Additional Components of Comprehensive Care
12. Tobacco Use Disorder and Treatment
13. Healthy Patients at Risk for Lung Cancer: Whether, How and Who to Screen
14. Symptom Management in Patients with Lung Cancer
15. Diagnosis and Management of Treatment Related Pulmonary Complications
Perspectives
16. Lung Cancer - Where Are We Now and What is the Future?

About the author

Yale University Medical Center

Product details

• Authors: Frank C Detterbeck, Frank C Detterbeck, Lynn T Tanoue, Lynn T. Tanoue, Tanoue Lynn T.
• Publisher: Elsevier, München
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2018
• EAN: 9780323485654
• ISBN: 978-0-323-48565-4
• Dimensions: 186 mm x 13 mm x 232 mm
• Weight: 563 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine, Oncology, Respiratory medicine, MEDICAL / Oncology / General