Abeloff's clinical oncology /
Clinical oncology
by John E. Niederhuber, MD, Executive Vice President, Inova Health System; CEO and Director, Inova Comprehensive Cancer and Research Institute; CEO, Inova Translational Medicine Institute; Falls Church; Virginia; Professor, Oncology and Surgery; The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Deputy Director; John Hopkins School of Medicine; Deputy Director Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network, Baltimore, Maryland; James O. Armitage, MD, Joe Shapiro Professor of Medicine; University of Nebraska Medical Centre, Omaha, Nebraska; James H. Doroshow, MD, Ethesda, MaryLand [and Two Others.]
- Fifth edition.
- xxxiv, 2186 pages. : illustrations 28 cm.
Includes Internet access. Previous ed.: Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2008.
Includes bibliographical referenecs and index.
pt. I. Science of clinical oncology -- sect. A. Biology and cancer -- sect. B. Genesis of cancer -- sect. C. Diagnosing cancer -- sect. D. Preventing and treating cancer -- pt. II. Problems common to cancer and its therapy -- sect. A. Hematologic problems and infections -- sect. B. Metabolic and paraneoplastic syndromes -- sect. C. Local effects of cancer and its metastasis -- sect. D. Complications of therapy -- sect. E. Special populations -- pt. III. Specific malignancies.