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Oxford Textbook of Oncology

by David J. Kerr, Daniel G. Haller, Cornelis J. H. van de Velde

3rd Edition

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Book Details

Print ISBN9780198832003
eText ISBN9780191065118
PublisherOxford University Press
Publishing Year2018
Edition3rd Edition
LanguageEnglish
Pages1036

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

  1. Section 1: Hallmarks of Cancer

  2. Chapter 1: The hallmarks of cancer, _Douglas Hanahan and Robert A. Weinberg_

  3. Chapter 2: Growth factors and uncontrolled proliferation, _Shujuan Liu and Ahmed Ashour Ahmed_

  4. Chapter 3: Cell signalling pathways, _Stefan Knapp_

  5. Chapter 4: Cell cycle control, _Simon Carr and Nicholas La Thangue_

  6. Chapter 5: Cancer cell death, _Amanda S. Coutts, Sandra Maniam, and Nicholas La Thangue_

  7. Chapter 6: Angiogenesis, _Yull E. Arriaga and Arthur E. Frankel_

  8. Chapter 7: Invasion and metastases, _Andrew P. Mazar, Andrey Ugolkov, Jack Henkin, Richard Ahn, and Thomas V. O'Halloran_

  9. Chapter 8: Genetic instability, _Sir Walter Bodmer and Jenny Wilding_

  10. Chapter 9: DNA repair after oncological therapy, _E. Dikomey, K. Borgmann, M. Kriegs, W. Mansour, C. Petersen, and T. Rieckmann_

  11. Chapter 10: Biology of cancer stem cells, _Andreas Trumpp_

  12. Chapter 11: Biomarker identification and clinical validation, _Richard D Kennedy, Manuel Salto-Tellez, D. Paul Harkin, and Patrick G Johnston_

  13. Chapter 12: Cancer, immunity, and inflammation, _Campbell SD Roxburgh and Donald C McMillan_

  14. Chapter 13: Cancer and metabolism, _Cameron Snell, Kevin C Gatter, Adrian L Harris, Francesco Pezzella_

  15. Section 2: Etiology and Epidemiology of Cancer

  16. Chapter 14: Smoking and cancer, _Jonathan Samet_

  17. Chapter 15: Viruses, _Chris Boshoff_

  18. Chapter 16: Chemical carcinogens, _Paula A. Oliveira_

  19. Chapter 17: Radiation, _Klaus Trott_

  20. Chapter 18: Body fatness, physical activity, diet, and other lifestyle factors, _Ellen Kampman and Franzel van Duijnhoven_

  21. Section 3: Principles of Oncology

  22. Chapter 19: Practice points for surgical oncology, _PG Boelens, CBM van den Broek, and_ _CJH van de Velde_

  23. Chapter 20: Practice points for radiation oncology, _Annekatrin Singer, Stephanie E. Combs, Jurgen Debus, and Michael Baumann_

  24. Chapter 21: Principles of chemotherapy, _David Kerr, Daniel Haller, and Jaap Verweij_

  25. Chapter 22: Delivery of multidisciplinary cancer care, _David N Church, Rachel S Midgley, and David J Kerr_

  26. Chapter 23: Principles of clinical pharmacology: Introduction to pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, _Michael Ong and Udai Banerji_

  27. Chapter 24: Design and analysis of clinical trials, _Dan Sargeant and Qian Shi_

  28. Chapter 25: Medical ethics in oncology, _Eric A. Singer_

  29. Chapter 26: Health economic assessment of cancer therapy, _Jeffrey Peppercorn_

  30. Section 4: Population Health

  31. Chapter 27: Cancer control: The role of national plans, _Masoud Samiei_

  32. Chapter 28: Cancer prevention: Vaccination, _Sarah Goltz and Julian Lob-Levyt_

  33. Chapter 29: Cancer prevention: Chemoprevention, _Hans-Joerg Senn, Nadir Arber, and Dirk Schrijvers_

  34. Chapter 30: Population cancer screening, _Andrew Evans, Simon Herrington, and Robert Steele_

  35. Chapter 31: Familial cancer syndromes and genetic counselling, _Henry T. Lynch, Carrie L. Snyder, and Jane F. Lynch (deceased)_

  36. Section 5: Support for the cancer patient

  37. Chapter 32: Supportive palliative care, _David Hui and Eduardo Bruera_

  38. Chapter 33: Quality of life, _Neil Aaronson and Peter Fayers_

  39. Chapter 34: Cancer survivorship and rehabilitation, _Rachel L. Yung and Ann H. Partridge_

  40. Section 6: Disease

  41. 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_

  42. Chapter 36: Oesophageal cancer, _Eric Van Cutsem, Christophe M. Deroose, Piet Dirix, Karin Haustermans, Tony Lerut, Philippe Nafteux, Hans Prenen, and Xavier Sagaert_

  43. Chapter 37: Gastric cancer, _Hideaki Bando, Takahiro Kinoshita, Yasutoshi Kuboki, Atsushi Ohtsu, and Kohei Shitara_

  44. Chapter 38: Rectal cancer, _Regina Beets-Tan, Bengt Glimelius, and Lars Pahlman_

  45. Chapter 39: Colon cancer, _John Zalcberg, Stephen Fox, Alexander Heriot, Jon Knowles, Sam Ngan, Michael Michael, Kathryn Field, and Iris Nagtegaal_

  46. 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_

  47. Chapter 41: Hepatobiliary cancer, _Graeme J Poston, Nicholas Stern, Jonathan Evans, Priya Healey, Daniel Palmer, and Mohandas K. Mallath_

  48. 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_

  49. 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_

  50. 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_

  51. Chapter 45: Genitourinary cancer, _John Fitzpatrick, Asif Muneer , Jean de la Rosette, and Thomas Powles_

  52. Chapter 46: Lung cancer, _Rafal Dziadziuszko, Michael Baumann, Tetsuya Mitsudomi, Keith M. Kerr, Solange Peters, and Stefan Zimmermann_

  53. Chapter 47: Neoplasms of the thymus, _Rebecca Butof, Axel Denz, Gustavo Baretton, Jan Stohlmacher-Williams, and Michael Baumann_

  54. 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_

  55. Chapter 49: Skin cancer: melanoma, _John F Thompson, Richard A Scolyer,_ _and Richard F Kefford_

  56. Chapter 50: Skin cancer: non-melonoma, _Diona L. Damian, Richard A. Scolyer, Graham Stevens, Alexander Menzies, and John F. Thompson_

  57. 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_

  58. Chapter 52: Chronic leukemias, _Hemant Malhotra, Lalit Kumar, Pankaj Malhotra, Devendra Hiwase, and Ravi Bhatia_

  59. Chapter 53: Myeloma, _Charlotte Pawlyn, Faith Davies, and Gareth Morgan_

  60. 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_

  61. Chapter 55: Sarcomas of the soft tissue, _Alessandro Gronchi,_ _Angelo P. Dei Tos, and Paolo G. Casali_

  62. Chapter 56: Cancer of the central nervous system, _Puneet Plaha, Allyson Parry, Pieter Pretorius, Michael Brada, Olaf Ansorge, and Claire Blessing_

  63. 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_

  64. 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_

  65. Chapter 59: Cancer of unknown primary site, _Nicholas Pavlidis and George Pentheroudakis_

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