Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide (Paperback)

Paperback. The most up-to-date information on the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancersThe high prevalence of skin cancer makes it crucial that physicians adequately understand the disease and its treatment. Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide provides the vital tools needed to successfully detect and treat this illnessimproving patient wellness and survival. Covering the full spectrum of skin cancers, the book provides essential information on diagnosis and treatment options. The text opens with an incisive discussion of both normal and aging skin and the incidences and causes of skin cancer, and is followed by descriptions of the various types of skin cancer and important benign tumors, and the dermatological manifestation of internal malignancy.Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide covers all the topics most important to clinicians and students, including the use of lasers and optical coherence tomography in skin cancer diagnosis, Mohs micrographic surgery, Hyper IgE and hypereosinophilic syndromes, and confocal laser scanning microscopy.Features:Summaries and clinical pearls for each chapterPatient education pointsCase studies Color illustrationsTreatment procedures for various patient populations, including children and pregnant women Information on skin cancer vaccines and chemo-prevention of cancerCoverage of:-Basal and Squamous Cell Carcinoma-Malignant Melanoma-Cutaneous Lymphoma and Leukemias-Sarcomas-Sweat Gland Tumors-Vascular Tumors of the Skin-Eyelid, Oral, and Genital Cancers-Pagets disease-HPV Associated Skin Cancers-Skin Cancer in Transplant and HIV Patients-Non-Melanoma and Melanoma Skin Cancers "This book will be the comprehensive reference of cutaneous malignancies with many descriptive color illustrations. Important topics that are of utmost interest to many are: laser in skin cancer diagnosis, optical coherence tomography in skin cancer diagnosis, Mohs micrographic surgery, hyper Ig-E syndrome and hypereosinophilic syndrome, and confocal laser scanning microscopy"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…