Clinical Oncology: Expert Consult - Online and Print - Hardcover

Abeloff MD, Martin D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0443066299 ISBN 13: 9780443066290

Publisher: Mosby, 2004

Synopsis

This completely revised 3rd Edition provides readers with an easy-to-use, comprehensive reference that features a clinical perspective balanced with relevant basic science. Readers will find the latest developments in basic science, pathology, diagnosis, management, outcomes, rehabilitation, and prevention. The addition of basic science editor Michael B. Kastan, MD, PhD ensures complete coverage of essential scientific information, including molecular tools in cancer research, cellular microenvironment, stem cells in cancer susceptibility genes, and more. Plus, a new templated, four-color design with highlighted boxes and algorithms offers easy access to pertinent information.

• Features the addition of basic science editor Michael B. Kastan, MD, PhD, ensuring complete coverage of essential scientific topics.
• Discusses the latest advances, including the most current developments in stem cell therapies and new approaches to innovations in diagnosis.
• Provides new information on geriatric oncology, as well as new chapters on pathology, imaging, and molecularly targeted therapies.
• Covers the hottest topics in the field, such as molecular tools in cancer research, cellular microenvironment, stem cells in cancer susceptibility genes, and more.
• Presents a multidisciplinary approach to disease chapters, including a pathologist, radiation oncologist, medical oncologist, and surgeon.
• Includes a CD-ROM image bank of the text's illustrations downloadable into PowerPoint® presentations.
• Offers a user-friendly layout with standard chapter templates
• summary boxes at the beginning of each chapter
• management "opinion" boxes
• a new full-color design
• and over 1,000 full-color illustrations, diagrams, and algorithms.
• And much more!

About this title

Review:

"...well written and organized, easy to read and use . . . it is well worth the price."
-JAMA 6/15/05

The book offers an impressive array of information on science and clinical medicine, including an in-depth chapter on alternative medicine, readers will find it a mine of information on almost every issue pertaining to the biological and somatic aspects of cancer. - CancerWorld, July-August 2005

About this edition

• Publisher: Mosby
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0443066299
• ISBN 13: 9780443066290
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 2952