Derived from Harrison's principles of internal medicine, 16th ed.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The Management of Patients with Cancer -- Principles of Patient Management (Staging, Importance of Tissue, etc) -- Supportive and Palliative Care (Symptom management, nausea, depression, pain, effusions, thrombosis prevention/treatment, infection prophylaxis, CSFs) -- Late Effects of Cancer and Its Treatment -- Specific Diseases -- Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers -- Head and Neck Cancer (including salivary glands) -- Thyroid Cancer -- Lung Tumors -- Breast Tumors -- Gastrointestinal Tract Tumors (esophagus, stomach, small and large bowel, rectal) -- Tumors of the Liver and Biliary Tract -- Pancreatic Cancer -- Endocrine Tumors of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Pancreas -- Bladder and Renal Cell Cancer -- Prostate Cancer -- Testicular Cancer -- Gynecologic Malignancies (endometrial, cervical, ovarian, fallopian tube, gestational) -- Sarcomas -- Cancer of Unknown Primary Site -- Primary and Metastatic Cancer involving the CNS -- Acute Myeloid Leukemia (to include APL, but not rare myeloid leukemias like erythro- leukemia and other WHO entities) -- Chronic Myeloid Leukemia -- Acute Lymphoid Leukemia (to include Burkitt's) Chronic Lymphoid Leukemias (to include hairy cell leukemia but NOT the rare lymphoid leukemias like NK cell, T-CLL) -- Lymphoid Malignancies (the most common forms only) -- Follicular lymphoma -- Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma -- Mantle cell lymphoma -- Gastric MALT lymphoma -- Mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma -- Anaplastic large T/null cell lymphoma -- Peripheral T cell lymphoma -- Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (Waldenstrom's) -- Multiple myeloma and its related tumors -- Hodgkin's disease.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"As a companion to Harrison's principles of internal medicine (16th ed.), this manual is intended to provide expanded and more detailed coverage of the management of malignant tumors, with a particular emphasis on their treatment with chemotherapy, targeted drugs, and hormonal therapy." -- Preface.