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Many cancer patients experience a variety of distressing symptoms, adversely affecting their functional status and quality of life (QOL). Subjective symptoms such as pain, fatigue and depression are common among cancer patients, with approximately 33-55%...

Cervical cancer (CC) is a major global health problem. World-wide, an estimated 530,000 new cases of CC and 275,000 deaths from this disease are encountered every year. CC affects particularly women less than 45 years of age and it is the leading cause...

Barrett's oesophagus refers to an abnormal change or metaplasia in the cells of the lower portion of the oesophagus. When the normal squamous epithelium lining of the oesophagus is replaced by goblet cells, Barrett's oesophagus is diagnosed. The medical...

People who have cancer don't always have pain. Everyone is different. But if an individual does have cancer pain, it can almost always be relieved. Cancer pain can range from mild to very severe. Some days it can be worse than others. It can be caused by...

Thyroid carcinoma is the most common endocrine malignancy. The aetiology of thyroid cancer is not yet fully known, although several issues are thought to predispose people, including radiation, nutrition, sex hormones, environment and genetics. This book...

Glioblastoma is the most common and lethal primary brain tumor which exhibits clinical, radiological and pathological heterogenity. Despite advances in standard therapy, including surgical resection, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the prognosis for...

Sarcomas are a group of rare malignant tumours that constitute less than 1% of all cancers, arising from the mesenchymal system. About 80% originate in soft tissue (muscle, nerves, joints, blood vessels, deep skin tissues, and fat), while the remainder...

Oncoproteins are any proteins coded by an oncogene and they play an important role in the regulation or synthesis of proteins linked to tumorigenic cell growth. Some oncoproteins are accepted and used as tumour markers. This book presents topical...

Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein enzyme that catalyses the cellular synthesis of telomeric DNA during cellular division, resulting in maintenance of telomere length and increased proliferative potential. Several studies suggest that the telomerase may...

Cisplatin is a platinum-based anticancer drug and widely used for the treatment of human testicular, ovarian, bladder, cervical, head and neck, and small cell lung cancers. Its anticancer activity results from the modification of DNA through covalent...

Melanomas are usually highly proliferative, invasive and are most frequently metastatic. Melanoma accounts for nearly 4% of skin cancer cases but, because of its highly metastatic capability, for 74% of all skin cancer mortalities. Therefore, melanoma is...

Current controversies about rectal cancer treatment are examined and discussed in this book. In particular, oncologic outcomes, which claim an aggressive approach over the primary tumour, lymph nodes and distant metastasis. Also, the functional outcome,...

This book gathers current research from across the globe in the study of brain cancer, cervical cancer and tumour targeting. Some topics discussed in this compilation include emerging targets in cancer therapy and novel nanotechnology-based therapeutic...

An estimated 166,400 new cases of cancer will occur in Canada in 2008. Bone metastases unfortunately remain a common site of recurrence, with breast and prostate cancer patients representing a substantial proportion of this population. Metastatic bone...

Multiple myeloma (also known as myeloma or plasma cell myeloma) is a progressive hematologic disease. It is a cancer of the plasma cell, an important part of the immune system that produces immunoglobulins (antibodies) to help fight infection and disease...

Being obese increases the risk of leukaemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, multiple myeloma, breast, cervical, colorectal, oesophageal, gallbladder, kidney, liver, ovarian, pancreatic, prostate, stomach, and uterine cancers. In addition, some studies show that...

Smoking responsible for 90% of cancer deaths. Incidence of lung cancer is rising. Lung cancer is responsible for more cancer deaths than colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and prostate cancer combined. Lung cancer primarily strikes people over age 45. By...

Tissue stem cells are multipotent and maybe clonogenic. These characters are similar to those of the earliest progenitor cells of carcinomas. In the gastrointestinal tract, epithelial stem cells exist in the region of the isthmus/neck in the stomach, in...

Development of the oral and craniofacial region is a complex and fascinating set of processes which require a sequential integration of numerous biological steps. For medical and dental doctors, interest is particularly high in this region, because it is...

Today, cancer is the second most prevalent cause of death, after heart disease, in the industrialised world. Till now, and despite promising results in cancer research, the primary cause of death in cancer is still 1: the formation of metastases at...

Soft tissue cancers occur in the extraskeletal connective tissue framework of the body including the organs of locomotion and their various component structures, such as nerves, blood vessels, lymphatics, etc. There are many different types of soft...

Cervix Cancer is the second leading cause of death for women world wide. The rates of breast cancer are quickly rising through out the world. In part these dismal statistics are related to the fact that disease in low resource countries is identified in...

Genes, which are carried on chromosomes, are the basic physical and functional units of heredity. Genes are specific sequences of bases that encode instructions on how to make proteins. Although genes get a lot of attention, it's the proteins that...

Hodgkin's disease, sometimes called Hodgkin's lymphoma, is a cancer that starts in lymphatic tissue. Lymphatic tissue includes the lymph nodes and related organs that are part of the body's immune and blood-forming systems. The lymph nodes are small,...

The nature of cancer disease, its probable causes, and the molecular and cellular mechanisms through which malignant tumours develop, have only recently begun to be understood in any appreciable detail. Cancer is fundamentally a disease of the genome,...

This practical guide to the management of thyroid nodules and cancer offers the practitioner a common-sense approach to the management of an increasingly common clinical problem. Thyroid cancer is the most rapidly increasing cancer diagnosis in the...

Chemoradiotherapy is the use of both chemotherapy and radiotherapy for the treatment of cancer. This book discusses it's concurrent uses, efficacy in the medical field, and the impact it has on the prognosis of cancers.Book InformationISBN...

This book offers a comprehensive review on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with a particular focus on the relationship between the pathobiology of disease and the clinical aspects including diagnosis and treatment. HCC is becoming one of the most common...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789283213178Author International Agency for Research on CancerFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint IARCPublisher IARC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241548694Author World Health OrganizationFormat PaperbackPage Count 55Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health Organization

In this issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, guest editor Dr. Alexa J. Siddon brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Myelodysplastic Syndromes. Top experts in the field discuss the various aspects of rare myelodysplastic syndromes and its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750340441Author Hualin ZhangFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics Publishing

Despite only 10% of cancers being linked to true genetic syndromes, identification of families with hereditary syndromes allows those at increased risk to have more frequent screening and engage in risk-reducing behaviors-ultimately leading to decreased...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476739991Author Clifton LeafFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

In this issue of Hematology/Oncology Clinics, guest editors Drs. Mary D. Chamberlin and Narjust Duma bring theirconsiderable expertise to the topic of Global Oncology: Disparities, Outcomes and Innovations Around the Globe. The first section of this...

Present and potential future applications of new diagnostic strategies basedon the direct or indirect detection of cancer genes are delineated in this volume. Among the methodological aspects covered are enzymatic target amplification by the polymerase...

Here is the first truly multidisciplinary handbook available that examines the cancer and aging interface along the entire cancer care continuum, from cancer prevention to end-of-life and palliative care. The coverage fully incorporates perspectives from...

This international primer on psycho-oncology spans settings of care as well as regional boundaries. Designed to be easy to read, with informaton clearly displayed in concise tables and boxes accompanied by clinical vignettes, the book provides clear,...

An informative handbook on the staging of cancer and the selection and evaluation of cancer treatment. ESMO Handbook on Treatment Evaluation in Cancer is an ideal resource for medical oncologists and those involved in screening and chemotherapy programs...

The treatment of patients who have advanced cancer presents a special set of problems: not only does the cancer itself need to be treated, but the chemotherapy involved can often induce physical problems of its own. Psychiatric problems and palliative...