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Abeloff's Clinical Oncology

Book • Fifth Edition2014

Edited by:

John E. Niederhuber, James O. Armitage, ... Joel E. Tepper

Abeloff's Clinical Oncology

Book • Fifth Edition2014

 

Cover for Abeloff's Clinical Oncology

Edited by:

John E. Niederhuber, James O. Armitage, ... Joel E. Tepper

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    Pages 2093-2186

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Practical and clinically focused, Abeloff’s Clinical Oncology is a trusted medical reference book designed to capture the latest scientific discoveries and their implications for cancer diagnosis and management of cancer in the most accessible manner possible. Abeloff’s equips everyone involved - from radiologists and oncologists to surgeons and nurses - to collaborate effectively and provide the best possible cancer care.

Practical and clinically focused, Abeloff’s Clinical Oncology is a trusted medical reference book designed to capture the latest scientific discoveries and their implications for cancer diagnosis and management of cancer in the most accessible manner possible. Abeloff’s equips everyone involved - from radiologists and oncologists to surgeons and nurses - to collaborate effectively and provide the best possible cancer care.

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  • Select the most appropriate tests and imaging studies for cancer diagnosis and staging of each type of cancer, and manage your patients in the most effective way possible by using all of the latest techniques and approaches in oncology.
  • Enhance your understanding of complex concepts with a color art program that highlights key points and illustrates relevant scientific and clinical problems.
  • Stay at the forefront of the latest developments in cancer pharmacology, oncology and healthcare policy, survivorship in cancer, and many other timely topics.
  • See how the most recent cancer research applies to practice through an increased emphasis on the relevance of new scientific discoveries and modalities within disease chapters.
  • Streamline clinical decision making with abundant new treatment and diagnostic algorithms as well as concrete management recommendations.
  • Take advantage of the collective wisdom of preeminent multidisciplinary experts in the field of oncology, including previous Abeloff’s editors John E. Niederhuber, James O. Armitage, and Michael B. Kastan as well as new editors James H. Doroshow from the National Cancer Institute and Joel E. Tepper of Gunderson & Tepper: Clinical Radiation Oncology.
  • Quickly and effortlessly access the key information you need with the help of an even more user-friendly, streamlined format.
  • Access the complete contents anytime, anywhere at Expert Consult, and test your mastery of the latest knowledge with 500 online multiple-choice review questions.

Your purchase entitles you to access the web site until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. If the next edition is published less than one year after your purchase, you will be entitled to online access for one year from your date of purchase. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should access to the web site be discontinued.

  • Select the most appropriate tests and imaging studies for cancer diagnosis and staging of each type of cancer, and manage your patients in the most effective way possible by using all of the latest techniques and approaches in oncology.
  • Enhance your understanding of complex concepts with a color art program that highlights key points and illustrates relevant scientific and clinical problems.
  • Stay at the forefront of the latest developments in cancer pharmacology, oncology and healthcare policy, survivorship in cancer, and many other timely topics.
  • See how the most recent cancer research applies to practice through an increased emphasis on the relevance of new scientific discoveries and modalities within disease chapters.
  • Streamline clinical decision making with abundant new treatment and diagnostic algorithms as well as concrete management recommendations.
  • Take advantage of the collective wisdom of preeminent multidisciplinary experts in the field of oncology, including previous Abeloff’s editors John E. Niederhuber, James O. Armitage, and Michael B. Kastan as well as new editors James H. Doroshow from the National Cancer Institute and Joel E. Tepper of Gunderson & Tepper: Clinical Radiation Oncology.
  • Quickly and effortlessly access the key information you need with the help of an even more user-friendly, streamlined format.
  • Access the complete contents anytime, anywhere at Expert Consult, and test your mastery of the latest knowledge with 500 online multiple-choice review questions.

Your purchase entitles you to access the web site until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. If the next edition is published less than one year after your purchase, you will be entitled to online access for one year from your date of purchase. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should access to the web site be discontinued.

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ISBN

978-1-4557-2865-7

Language

English

Published

2014

Copyright

Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Saunders

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Editors

John E. Niederhuber

Executive Vice President, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia

CEO and Director, Inova Comprehensive Cancer and Research Institute, Falls Church, Virginia

CEO, Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Falls Church, Virginia

Professor, Oncology and Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network, Baltimore, Maryland

James O. Armitage

Joe Shapiro Professor of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska

James H. Doroshow

Bethesda, Maryland

Michael B. Kastan

Executive Director, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, North Carolina

William W. Shingleton Professor, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Joel E. Tepper

Hector MacLean Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research, Department of Radiation Oncology, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina