
Oxford Textbook of Oncology
by David J. Kerr, Daniel G. Haller, Cornelis J. H. van de Velde
3rd Edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780198832003 |
| eText ISBN | 9780191065118 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Publishing Year | 2018 |
| Edition | 3rd Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 1036 |
The Oxford Textbook of Oncology, 3rd Edition, presents a multidisciplinary approach to cancer care and clinical oncology. Edited by David J. Kerr, Daniel G. Haller, Cornelis J. H. van de Velde, and Michael Baumann, the work links foundational cancer biology directly to clinical decision-making.
The volume covers cancer etiology, cellular mechanisms, core treatment principles, and population health initiatives, while examining the support required by individual patients both during and after therapy.
Featuring disease-oriented, case-based chapters on conditions ranging from acute leukaemia to colon cancer, this clinical textbook serves oncologists across all grades and subspecialties.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Hallmarks of Cancer
Chapter 1: The hallmarks of cancer, _Douglas Hanahan and Robert A. Weinberg_
Chapter 2: Growth factors and uncontrolled proliferation, _Shujuan Liu and Ahmed Ashour Ahmed_
Chapter 3: Cell signalling pathways, _Stefan Knapp_
Chapter 4: Cell cycle control, _Simon Carr and Nicholas La Thangue_
Chapter 5: Cancer cell death, _Amanda S. Coutts, Sandra Maniam, and Nicholas La Thangue_
Chapter 6: Angiogenesis, _Yull E. Arriaga and Arthur E. Frankel_
Chapter 7: Invasion and metastases, _Andrew P. Mazar, Andrey Ugolkov, Jack Henkin, Richard Ahn, and Thomas V. O'Halloran_
Chapter 8: Genetic instability, _Sir Walter Bodmer and Jenny Wilding_
Chapter 9: DNA repair after oncological therapy, _E. Dikomey, K. Borgmann, M. Kriegs, W. Mansour, C. Petersen, and T. Rieckmann_
Chapter 10: Biology of cancer stem cells, _Andreas Trumpp_
Chapter 11: Biomarker identification and clinical validation, _Richard D Kennedy, Manuel Salto-Tellez, D. Paul Harkin, and Patrick G Johnston_
Chapter 12: Cancer, immunity, and inflammation, _Campbell SD Roxburgh and Donald C McMillan_
Chapter 13: Cancer and metabolism, _Cameron Snell, Kevin C Gatter, Adrian L Harris, Francesco Pezzella_
Section 2: Etiology and Epidemiology of Cancer
Chapter 14: Smoking and cancer, _Jonathan Samet_
Chapter 15: Viruses, _Chris Boshoff_
Chapter 16: Chemical carcinogens, _Paula A. Oliveira_
Chapter 17: Radiation, _Klaus Trott_
Chapter 18: Body fatness, physical activity, diet, and other lifestyle factors, _Ellen Kampman and Franzel van Duijnhoven_
Section 3: Principles of Oncology
Chapter 19: Practice points for surgical oncology, _PG Boelens, CBM van den Broek, and_ _CJH van de Velde_
Chapter 20: Practice points for radiation oncology, _Annekatrin Singer, Stephanie E. Combs, Jurgen Debus, and Michael Baumann_
Chapter 21: Principles of chemotherapy, _David Kerr, Daniel Haller, and Jaap Verweij_
Chapter 22: Delivery of multidisciplinary cancer care, _David N Church, Rachel S Midgley, and David J Kerr_
Chapter 23: Principles of clinical pharmacology: Introduction to pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, _Michael Ong and Udai Banerji_
Chapter 24: Design and analysis of clinical trials, _Dan Sargeant and Qian Shi_
Chapter 25: Medical ethics in oncology, _Eric A. Singer_
Chapter 26: Health economic assessment of cancer therapy, _Jeffrey Peppercorn_
Section 4: Population Health
Chapter 27: Cancer control: The role of national plans, _Masoud Samiei_
Chapter 28: Cancer prevention: Vaccination, _Sarah Goltz and Julian Lob-Levyt_
Chapter 29: Cancer prevention: Chemoprevention, _Hans-Joerg Senn, Nadir Arber, and Dirk Schrijvers_
Chapter 30: Population cancer screening, _Andrew Evans, Simon Herrington, and Robert Steele_
Chapter 31: Familial cancer syndromes and genetic counselling, _Henry T. Lynch, Carrie L. Snyder, and Jane F. Lynch (deceased)_
Section 5: Support for the cancer patient
Chapter 32: Supportive palliative care, _David Hui and Eduardo Bruera_
Chapter 33: Quality of life, _Neil Aaronson and Peter Fayers_
Chapter 34: Cancer survivorship and rehabilitation, _Rachel L. Yung and Ann H. Partridge_
Section 6: Disease
Chapter 35: Cancer of the head and neck, _Christine Chung, Andreas Dietz, Vincent Gregoire, Marco Guzzo, Marc Hamoir, Rene Leemans, Jean-Louis Lefebvre, Lisa Licitra, Adel El-Naggar,_ _Brian O?Sullivan, Bing Tan, Vincent Vandecaveye, Vincent Vander Poorten, Jan Vermorken, and Michelle Williams_
Chapter 36: Oesophageal cancer, _Eric Van Cutsem, Christophe M. Deroose, Piet Dirix, Karin Haustermans, Tony Lerut, Philippe Nafteux, Hans Prenen, and Xavier Sagaert_
Chapter 37: Gastric cancer, _Hideaki Bando, Takahiro Kinoshita, Yasutoshi Kuboki, Atsushi Ohtsu, and Kohei Shitara_
Chapter 38: Rectal cancer, _Regina Beets-Tan, Bengt Glimelius, and Lars Pahlman_
Chapter 39: Colon cancer, _John Zalcberg, Stephen Fox, Alexander Heriot, Jon Knowles, Sam Ngan, Michael Michael, Kathryn Field, and Iris Nagtegaal_
Chapter 40: Pancreatic cancer, _J. Weitz, M.W. Buchler, Paul D Sykes, John P Neoptolemos, Eithne Costello, Christopher M Halloran, Frank Bergmann, Peter Schirmacher, Ulrich Bork, Stefan Fritz, Jens_ _Werner, Thomas Brunner, Elizabeth Smyth, David Cunningham, Brian R. Untch, and Peter J. Allen_
Chapter 41: Hepatobiliary cancer, _Graeme J Poston, Nicholas Stern, Jonathan Evans, Priya Healey, Daniel Palmer, and Mohandas K. Mallath_
Chapter 42: Peritoneal mesothelioma, _H. Richard Alexander, Jr., Dario Baratti, Terence C. Chua, Marcello Deraco, Raffit Hassan, Marzia Pennati, Federica Perrone, Paul H. Sugarbaker, Anish Thomas, Keli Turner, Tristan D. Yan and Nadia Zaffaroni_
Chapter 43: Cancer of the breast, _Martine Piccart, Toral Gathani, Dimitrios Zardavas, Hatem A. Azim Jr., Christos Sotiriou, Giuseppe Viale, Emiel J T Rutgers, Mechthild Krause, Monica Arnedos, Suzette Delaloge, Fabrice Andre, and Felipe Ades_
Chapter 44: Gynaecological cancers, _Richard Potter, Shujuan Liu, Bolin Liu, Sebastien Gouy,_ _Sigurd Lax, Eric Leblanc, Philippe Morice, Fabrice Narducci, Alexander Reinthaller, Maximilian P Schmid, Catherine Uzan, and Pauline Wimberger_
Chapter 45: Genitourinary cancer, _John Fitzpatrick, Asif Muneer , Jean de la Rosette, and Thomas Powles_
Chapter 46: Lung cancer, _Rafal Dziadziuszko, Michael Baumann, Tetsuya Mitsudomi, Keith M. Kerr, Solange Peters, and Stefan Zimmermann_
Chapter 47: Neoplasms of the thymus, _Rebecca Butof, Axel Denz, Gustavo Baretton, Jan Stohlmacher-Williams, and Michael Baumann_
Chapter 48: Pleural mesothelioma, _Andrea S. Wolf, Assunta De Rienzo, Raphael Bueno, Lucian R. Chirieac, Joseph Corson, Elizabeth H. Baldini, David Jackman, Ritu Gill, Walter Weder, Isabelle Opitz, Ann S. Adams, and David J. Sugarbaker_
Chapter 49: Skin cancer: melanoma, _John F Thompson, Richard A Scolyer,_ _and Richard F Kefford_
Chapter 50: Skin cancer: non-melonoma, _Diona L. Damian, Richard A. Scolyer, Graham Stevens, Alexander Menzies, and John F. Thompson_
Chapter 51: Acute leukemia, _Adele K. Fielding, Charles G. Mullighan, Dieter Hoelzer, Eytan M. Stein, Ghada Zakout, Martin S. Tallman, Ross Levine, Yishai Ofran, Jacob M. Rowe, and Ross L. Levine_
Chapter 52: Chronic leukemias, _Hemant Malhotra, Lalit Kumar, Pankaj Malhotra, Devendra Hiwase, and Ravi Bhatia_
Chapter 53: Myeloma, _Charlotte Pawlyn, Faith Davies, and Gareth Morgan_
Chapter 54: Lymphomas, _Frank Kroschinsky, Friedrich Stolzel, Stefano A. Pileri, Bjoern Chapuy, Rainer Ordemann, Christian Gisselbrecht, Tim Illidge, David C. Hodgson, Mary K. Gospodarowicz, Christina Schutze, and Gerald Wulf_
Chapter 55: Sarcomas of the soft tissue, _Alessandro Gronchi,_ _Angelo P. Dei Tos, and Paolo G. Casali_
Chapter 56: Cancer of the central nervous system, _Puneet Plaha, Allyson Parry, Pieter Pretorius, Michael Brada, Olaf Ansorge, and Claire Blessing_
Chapter 57: Cancer of the eye and orbit, _Daniel G. Ezra, Geoffrey E. Rose, Jacob Pe'er, Sarah Coupland, S. Seregard, G.P.M. Luyten, and Annette C. Moll_
Chapter 58: Endocrine cancers, _David Kerr, Andrew Weaver, Anthony P. Weetman, Oliver Gimm, Ashley Grossman, Petra Sulentic, Bertram Wiedenmann, Ulrich-Frank Pape, John Wass, Angela Rogers, and W de Herder_
Chapter 59: Cancer of unknown primary site, _Nicholas Pavlidis and George Pentheroudakis_
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