Handbook of Gastrointestinal Cancer
by Jankowski, Janusz; Hawk, ErnestEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-12-26
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
Residents/trainees and specialists in gastroenterology, oncology, and surgery, as well as GI/cancer nurses and other health professionals will welcome this accessible guide to the diagnosis and clinical management of all forms of GI cancer. Separate chapters are dedicated to each form of cancer, with each chapter structured in a uniformly consistent way: Epidemiology of that type of GI cancer; Diagnosis; Prevention; Management; Family screening; Case studies; Key patient consent issues.
Author Biography
Janusz Jankowski, Sir James Black Professor Centre for Digestive Diseases, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Ernest Hawk, Vice President and Head, Division of Cancer Prevention & Population Sciences, and Boone Pickens Distinguished Chair for Early Prevention of Cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Table of Contents
List of Contributors, xxx
1 Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Jianmin Tian and Kenneth K. Wang
2 Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Epidemiology
Nimish Vakil
Family Screening: Barrett Esophagus and Esophagus Cancer
Yvonne Romero and Kee Wook Jung
Prognostication
C. J. Peters and R.C. Fitzgerald
Key Issues in Patient Informed Consent
Grant M. Fullarton and Paul Glen
3 Gastric Cancer
Branislav Bystricky and David Cunningham
4 Small Intestinal Cancers
Nadir Arber and Menachem Moshkowitz
5 Clinician’s Guide to Colorectal Cancer: An Evidence Based Compilation
Shahab Ahmed and Cathy Eng
6 Anal Cancer
Jeffrey J. Meyer, Christopher G. Willett, Brian G. Czito
7 Primary Hepatic Cancer
Anan H. Said, Kirti Shetty, Ying Li, Boris Blechacz, Ernest Hawk & Lopa Mishra
8 Pancreatic and Biliary Cancer
Neil Bhardwaj, David M. Lloyd
9 GI Endocrine Cancer
Mohid Shakil Khan and Martyn Caplin
10 Gastrointestinal Lymphoma
Eliza A. Hawkes, Andrew Wotherspoon and David Cunningham
Index
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