Oncology

This book presents original results on the leading edge of cancer research. Chapter One explains unanswered questions of contemporary oncology from...

In the Middle East, as in other countries in the developing world, there is now a wide acceptance that palliative care is an important public healt...

Before the use of chemotherapy, the treatment of localised osteosarcoma often involved amputation for local control of the disease. But even after ...

Many cancer patients experience a variety of distressing symptoms, adversely affecting their functional status and quality of life (QOL). Subjectiv...

In recent years it has become clear that cancer is a major health concern for people with an intellectual disability. In the general population it ...

This book presents original results on the leading edge of cancer research. Topics discussed include the emerging roles of the Sirtuin family in ca...

In early stages of cancer, patients are often presented with treatment options and encouraged to have shared treatment decisions with their oncolog...

Disability is part of human life and most of us will, at some time during our lifetime, experience an impairment or difficulty in our functioning, ...

This book presents original research results on the leading edge of cancer. Topics discussed include the aetiology and treatment of gallbladder can...

Glioblastoma is the most common and lethal primary brain tumor which exhibits clinical, radiological and pathological heterogenity. Despite advance...

Thyroid carcinoma is the most common endocrine malignancy. The aetiology of thyroid cancer is not yet fully known, although several issues are thou...

The blood cell system has provided a model system that has been used by many researchers to investigate how a stem cell can give rise to a wide var...

This book provides research on ependymomas, a rare brain tumor that arises from the ependymal cells of the intra-ventricular central nervous system...

This book presents original results on the leading edge of cancer research. Lipomas are extremely common benign lesions, representing the most comm...

Kidney cancer is the 10th most common cancer in Europe with overall mortality rates increasing until the late 1980s and early 1990s and thereafter,...

This book presents original results on the leading edge of cancer research. Topics discussed include malignancy-related ascites; targeting cathepsi...

Prostate cancer is a disease in which cancer develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. It occurs when cells of the prostat...

This book presents original results on the leading edge of cancer research. Chapter One summarizes what is currently known regarding the epigenetic...

Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is an extranodal form of non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL) occurring in the craniospinal axis that accoun...

A tumour suppresser gene, or anti-oncogene, is a gene that protects a cell from one step on the path to cancer. When this gene is mutated to cause ...

Primary human liver cancer, of which hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is by far the predominant type, is a major cause of cancer death world-wide, ac...

This book gathers current research from across the globe in the study of cancer in the elderly. Topics discussed include cancer-related fatigue in ...

Benign breast diseases constitute a heterogeneous group of lesions. In this book, common benign lesions are summarized and their relationship to de...

Cisplatin is a platinum-based anticancer drug and widely used for the treatment of human testicular, ovarian, bladder, cervical, head and neck, and...