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This quick-reference guide is the first book written specifically for the many third- and fourth-year medical students rotating on a Surgical Oncology service. The book focuses on the diagnosis and management of the most common pathologic entities. Each chapter covers history, physical examination, imaging, and common diagnoses. For each diagnosis, the book sets out the typical presentation, options for non-operative and operative management, and expected outcomes. Chapters include key illustrations, quick-reference charts, tables, diagrams, and bulleted lists. Students can read the text from cover to cover to gain a general foundation of knowledge that can be built upon when they begin their rotation, then use specific chapters to review a sub-specialty before starting a new rotation or seeing a patient with a sub-specialty attending.
Practical and user-friendly, Clerkship is the ideal, on-the-spot resource for medical students and practitioners seeking fast facts on diagnosis and management. Its bullet-pointed outline format makes it a perfect quick-reference, and its content breadth covers the most commonly encountered problems in clinical practice.
List of contents
Introduction and Premise.- Surgical Oncology Rotation Principles.- General workup of the cancer patient.- Preparation for clinics.- Preparation for the operating room.- Palliative care and the surgeon s role.- Gastrointestinal cancers.- Esophageal cancer.- Gastric cancer.- Small bowel cancer.- Colon Cancer.- Rectal Cancer.- Appendiceal neoplasms.- Anal cancer.-Peritoneal surface malignancies and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC).-Hepatopancreatobiliary cancers.- Hepatocellular carcinoma.- Colorectal liver metastases.- Cholangiocarcinoma.- Gallbladder cancer.- Pancreatic cancer.- Cystic neoplasms of the pancreas.- Skin cancers.- Squamous cell carcinoma.- Basal cell carcinoma.- Melanoma.-Merkel cell carcinoma.- Soft tissue cancers/Sarcomas.- Extremity soft tissue sarcoma.- Retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcoma.- Gastrointestinal stromal tumor.- Breast disease.-Phyllodes tumor.- Ductal carcinoma in-situ.- Invasive ductal carcinoma.- BRCA-associated breast cancer and male breast cancer.- Inflammatory breast cancer.- Endocrine diseases.-Thyroid cancer.- Gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors.- Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.- Adrenocortical carcinoma.
About the author
Anthony M. Villano, MD, FACS, FSSO, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Department of Surgery, Assistant Professor of Complex General Surgical Oncology
Jeffrey M. Farma, MD, FACS, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Chair, Department of Surgery, Professor of Complex General Surgical Oncology
Summary
This quick-reference guide is the first book written specifically for the many third- and fourth-year medical students rotating on a Surgical Oncology service. The book focuses on the diagnosis and management of the most common pathologic entities. Each chapter covers history, physical examination, imaging, and common diagnoses. For each diagnosis, the book sets out the typical presentation, options for non-operative and operative management, and expected outcomes. Chapters include key illustrations, quick-reference charts, tables, diagrams, and bulleted lists. Students can read the text from cover to cover to gain a general foundation of knowledge that can be built upon when they begin their rotation, then use specific chapters to review a sub-specialty before starting a new rotation or seeing a patient with a sub-specialty attending.
Practical and user-friendly, Clerkship is the ideal, on-the-spot resource for medical students and practitioners seeking fast facts on diagnosis and management. Its bullet-pointed outline format makes it a perfect quick-reference, and its content breadth covers the most commonly encountered problems in clinical practice.
