Liver Cancers (eBook, PDF)

From Mechanisms to Management
Redaktion: Cross, Tim; Palmer, Daniel H.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Reviews liver cancer in a concise and comprehensive manner

Written in a clear and didactic style which will be of use to both specialist and non-specialists

Contains summary boxes to highlight the key points and simple questions so the reader can gauge their knowledge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319922164
• Artikelnr.: 54756370

Autorenporträt

Dr Tim Cross, BMedSci (Hons), MB BS, MD, FRCP Dr Cross qualified from St. Bartholomew's hospital medical college in 1996.  He undertook general gastroenterology training in North East London and hepatology training at Addenbrookes hospital, Cambridge, The Royal Free Hospital, University College Hospital and Kings College Hospital, London.  He was a consultant at the South West Liver Unit, Plymouth UK before moving to the Royal Liverpool Hospital in 2012.   Prof Daniel Palmer, BSc (Hons), MBChB, PhD, FRCP Professor Palmer graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1995 and undertook his specialist training in Medical Oncology in the Birmingham Oncology Centre before taking the position of Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist and Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool. He took the North West Cancer Research Chair of Medical Oncology at the University of Liverpool in 2011. His specialist interests include development of novel therapies and clinical trials for hepatobiliary and pancreatic cancers.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).- Pathogenesis of HCC.- Surveillance for HCC.- Diagnosis of HCC.- Part II: Treatment.- Surgery.- Ablation techniques.- Transarterial chemoembolization.- Transarterial Radio-embolization.- Liver transplantation.- Chemotherapy and HCC.- Emerging novel therapies.- Part IIV: Cholangiocarcinoma.- Pathogenesis.- Diagnosis and surveillance.- Part IV:Management.- Surgery.- Ablation and embolic treatments.- Chemotherapy.- Emerging novel therapies.- Mixed Malignancies HCC/cholangiocarcinoma.- Part V: Metastatic Liver cancers.- Colorectal cancer.- Melanoma.- Neuroendocrine tumours.- Sarcomas.- Lymphoma.- Part VI: Benign Liver Tumours.- Benign Liver tumours.