Full Description
The third edition of this book has been extensively expanded to discuss all aspects of cancer treatment side-effects in everyday life, covering a range of issues from skin problems to fertility problems, Divided in three major parts, the first part covers medical cancer therapy side effects, ranging from organ-related toxicities to drug group particularities. In the second part the adverse events in surgery are extensively discussed, covering issues in regular and robotic surgery and discussing indications and effectiveness. Finally, in the third part, the balance of efficacy versus toxicity in radiotherapy is discussed for different tumor types.
The reader will learn about the state of the art in cancer therapies and their side-effects as well as possible prevention. Chapters remain up to date via electronic updates and include all the latest progress in drug discovery, surgery and radiotherapy.
This is a very comprehensive work written by a team of world experts and edited by key opinion leaders. This book is aimed at medical, surgical and clinical oncologists but is a great resource for junior doctors, trainees, pharmacists and nurses.
Contents
Side Effects of Medical Cancer Therapy.- Drug Interactions and Pharmacogenetics.- Breast Cancer.- Lung Cancer.- Gastrointestinal Cancer: Selection of Clinically Relevant Drug-Induced Toxicities Encountered in Gastrointestinal Cancer Treatment.- Gynecologic Cancer.- Side Effects of Medical Cancer Therapy in Genitourinary Malignancies.- Central Nervous System.- Myeloid Malignancies.- Lymphoma.- Multiple Myeloma.- Dermatologic Side Effects of Systemic Targeted Anticancer Therapy.- Immune Checkpoint Inhibition.- Preservation of Fertility in the Cancer Patient.- Cardiotoxicity.- Bone Marrow Toxicity: Red Blood Cells.- Bone Marrow Toxicity: White Blood Cells..- Bone Marrow Toxicity: Platelets.- Toxicity of Bone-Targeted Agents in Malignancy.- State of the Art of Antiemetic Therapy.- Side Effects of Nociceptive Cancer Pain Treatments in Adults.- Totally Implanted Access Ports: Indications and Prevention of Complications.- Side Effects of Surgical Cancer Therapy.- Neurosurgery.- Oro-Maxillo-Facial.- Thoracic surgery.- Thoracic surgery.- Thoracic surgery: Breast.- Thoracic surgery: Endocrine.- Abdominal surgery: Gastric.- Abdominal surgery: Hepatobiliary.- Abdominal surgery: Pancreas.- Abdominal surgery: Colorectal surgery including Peritonectomy.- Abdominal surgery: Urology.- Abdominal surgery: Gynecology.- Abdominal surgery: Orthopedics/sarcoma.- Melanoma.- Side Effects of Radiotherapy.- What is radiotherapy, a general introduction.- The place of radiotherapy in cancer treatment.- Radiotherapy concepts and planning.- The different types of radiotherapy.- External beam radiotherapy: Photons.- External beam radiotherapy: Electrons.- External beam radiotherapy: Particles.- Brachytherapy.- Radiobiology: DNA damage and cell death.- Radiobiology: Cell survival curve.- Radiobiology: Dose response relationship and therapeutic window.- Radiobiology: Therapeutic ratio and window.- Radiobiology: The 'R' in radiotherapy.- Factors in tissue responds to irradiation.- Dose-Volume Relationship.- Dose-Volume histogram.- Serial and Parallel Organs.
