Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine Cloth

Robert C. Bast, Jr., Carlo M. Croce, William N. Hait, Waun Ki Hong, Donald W. Kufe, Martine Piccart-Gebart, Raphael E. Pollock, Ralph R. Weichselbaum, Hongyang Wang, James F. Holland

John Wiley & Sons, Mar 20, 2017 - Medical - 2008 pages

The original reference resource for medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, internists, and allied specialties involved in the treatment of cancer patients, Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine covers the ever-expanding field of current cancer science and clinical oncology practice. In this new ninth edition an outstanding editorial team from world-renowned medical centers continue to hone the leading edge forged in previous editions, with timely information on biology, immunology, etiology, epidemiology, prevention, screening, pathology, imaging, and therapy.

Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine, Ninth Edition, brings scientific principles into clinical practice and is a testament to the ethos that innovative, comprehensive, multidisciplinary treatment of cancer patients must be grounded in a fundamental understanding of cancer biology.

This ninth edition features hundreds of full color illustrations, photographs, tables, graphs and algorithms that enhance understanding of complex topics and make this text an invaluable clinical tool. Over 15 brand new chapters covering the latest advances, including chapters Cancer Metabolism, Bioinformatics, Biomarker Based Clinical Trial Design, Health Services Research and Survivorship bring this comprehensive resource up-to-date. Each chapter contains overview boxes, select references and other pedagogic features, designed to make the content easy to access and absorb. The full list of references for each chapter are available on the free Wiley Companion Digital Edition.

Inside this completely updated Ninth Edition you’ll find:

• A translational perspective throughout, integrating cancer biology with cancer management providing an in depth understanding of the disease
• An emphasis on multidisciplinary, research-driven patient care to improve outcomes and optimal use of all appropriate therapies
• Cutting-edge coverage of personalized cancer care, including molecular diagnostics and therapeutics
• Concise, readable, clinically relevant text with algorithms, guidelines and insight into the use of both conventional and novel drugs
• Free access to the Wiley Companion Digital Edition providing search across the book, full reference list with web links, downloadable illustrations and photographs, and post publication updates to key chapters

Edited and authored by an international group of some of the best-known oncologists, cancer researchers, surgeons, pathologists, and other associated specialists in the world, and endorsed by the American Association of Cancer Research Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine offers a genuinely international view of cancer research and clinical oncology practice.

Endorsed by the American Association of Cancer Research

Contents

• Urothelial cancer 1195: 1237
• Neoplasms of the vulva and vagina: 1269
• Summer B Dewdney and Jacob Rotmensch: 1281
• 76: 845
• 78: 919
• 95: 949
• Michael E Kupferman: 1011
• RNA tumor viruses 341 Waun Ki Hong: 28
• Cancer epidemiology 399 51 Personalized medicine in oncology drug: 34
• Epithelial ovarian fallopian tube and peritoneal: 1317
• CLINICAL DISCIPLINES William N Hait and Joseph P Eder: 613
• Molecular diagnostics in cancer 469 Peter D Cole Lisa Figueiredo and Joseph R Bertino: 625
• Kalachand Bryan T Hennessy Robert C Bast: 637
• Principles of surgical oncology 491 59 DNA topoisomerase targeting drugs: 665
• Principles of radiation oncology 503 60 Agents targeting microtubules and mitotic processes: 679
• Steven A Curley: 1129
• List of contributors: xi
• Preface: xxvii
• Molar pregnancy and gestational trophoblastic: 1912
• 133: 1914
• INTRODUCTION: 1919
• neoplasia 1353: 1922
• 1369: 1932
• Malignant melanoma 1441: 1943
• 136: 1945
• Neurologic complications of cancer 1701: 1949
• Aberrant signaling pathways in cancer 137: 1960

About the author

Robert C. Bast Jr, MD, Vice President for Translational Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Carlo M. Croce, MD, Distinguished University Professor, The John W. Wolfe Chair in Human Cancer Genetics, Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, The Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

William Hait, MD, PhD, Global Head research and Development, Janssen pharmaceutical companies of Johnson and Johnson, NJ, USA

Waun Ki Hong, MD, DMSc, Professor of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, American Cancer Society Professor, Samsung Distinguished University Chair in Cancer Medicine Emeritus, The University of Texas M.D.Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Donald W. Kufe, MD, Distinguished Physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School, Leader, Translational Pharmacology and Early Therapeutic Trials Program
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA

Martine Piccart-Gebhart MD PhD, Professor of Oncology, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Head of the Medicine Department, Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium

Raphael E. Pollock, MD, PhD, FACS, Professor and Director, Division of Surgical Oncology, Surgeon in Chief, James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Surgeon in Chief, The Ohio State University Health System, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

Ralph R. Weichselbaum, MD, Daniel K. Ludwig Professor Chair Dept of Radiology and Cellular Oncology University of Chicago Hospital Director Chicago Tumor Institute, IL, USA

Dr Hongyang Wang, Professor and Director, National Center for Liver Cancer, China; and Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Shanghai, China

James F. Holland, MD, ScD (hc), Distinguished Professor of Neoplastic Diseases, Director Emeritus of Derald H.Rutttenberg Cancer Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Fadlo R. Khuri, MD, Executive Associate Dean for Research, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA; President, the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Bibliographic information

• Title: Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine Cloth; Holland Frei Cancer Medicine
• Editors: Robert C. Bast, Jr., Carlo M. Croce, William N. Hait, Waun Ki Hong, Donald W. Kufe, Martine Piccart-Gebart, Raphael E. Pollock, Ralph R. Weichselbaum, Hongyang Wang, James F. Holland
• Edition: 9, illustrated
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2017
• ISBN: 1118934695, 9781118934692
• Length: 2008 pages
• Subjects: Medical / General; Medical / Oncology / General