Oncology

Brain metastases are frequently encountered in the neuro-oncological field. It has been estimated that 170,000 people a year in the USA experience ...

In Canada over the past fifteen years, there has been a 39% rise in new cancer patients, necessitating the expansion of current oncological facilit...

This book focuses on the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment for various types of laryngeal diseases. Laryngopharyngeal reflux, for example, which co...

Various nasal and paranasal sinuses malignancies comprise approximately 15% of upper aerodigestive tract neoplasms. Chronic exposure to metals like...

Prostate cancer (PCa) is a disease with high incidence and prevalence. Early detection of PCa has been an area for research to decrease its morbidi...

Bladder cancer refers to any of several types of malignant growths of the urinary bladder. It is a disease in which abnormal cells multiply without...

This book presents original research results on the leading edge of cancer. Topics discussed include coping mechanisms in patients with head and ne...

This personal scientific memoir describes how a chance observation concerning artery disease in children with rare inherited abnormalities of metab...

Chemotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses drugs to destroy cancer cells. Chemotherapy works by stopping or slowing the growth of cancer ...

Gliders formed a special category of aircraft within the Luftwaffe. While other aircraft types were used for many years, as a rule gliders were con...

This book compiles biographical sketches of top professionals in the field of cancer research, as well as research summaries from a number of diffe...

People who have cancer don''t always have pain. Everyone is different. But if an individual does have cancer pain, it can almost always be relieved...

Lung cancer is the most common and most lethal malignancy world-wide, causing 1.4 million diseases every year. Half of non-small cell lung cancers ...

This book covers the basic experimental models in glioblastoma research. It starts with a description in the first two chapters of general clinical...

Cholangiocarcinoma is a devastating illness with poor long-term survival. The diagnosis and treatment of cholangocarcinoma is becoming increasingly...

This book presents original results on the leading edge of cancer research. Topics discussed include oral cancer cachexia; the immunological mechan...

The book Psychoneurocybernetic Conquest of Carcinogenesis and Cancers is written to be understood by the informed layman as well as by scientists. ...

Lung cancer, the most common and deadliest malignancy worldwide, is one of the biggest challenges for modern oncology. Although lung cancer present...

The diagnosis and treatment of Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) have evolved significantly in the past decade. With advances in our understand...

Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of death world-wide with the majority of patients suffering from advanced unresectable or metastatic non-s...

This book presents current research in the study of various cancer treatments. Topics discussed include anticancer drugs and anticancer agents; des...

Several medical options in palliative care can have complex moral, religious, cultural, medical and legal issues. These treatment options, such as ...

Melanoma accounts for only 4% of all skin cancer cases but most of skin cancer-related death. The rising incidence of melanoma makes this tumour an...

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) is the most common leukemia in the western world, seen mostly in the elderly age-group and has a very variable c...

Cholangiocarcinoma presents a challenge for cancer specialists all over the world. Neoplasia of the biliary tract are rare, accounting for approxim...