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- Focuses primarily on the standard approaches to the treatment of benign, primary low-grade to high-grade, and metastatic tumors in the brain and spine
- Overview on treatment with focus on neurosurgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, both singly and in combination.
- Reviews symptom management, molecular genetics and neuropathology of intracranial tumors, leptomeningeal dissemination of systemic cancer, and epidemiology of brain tumors
- Provides innovative treatment strategies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: MD Anderson Cancer Care Series (MDCCS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
Franco DeMonte, Mark R. Gilbert, Anita Mahajan, Ian E. McCutcheon, Aman U. Buzdar, Ralph S. Freedman
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tumors of the Brain and Spine
Editors: Franco DeMonte, Mark R. Gilbert, Anita Mahajan, Ian E. McCutcheon, Aman U. Buzdar, Ralph S. Freedman
Series Title: MD Anderson Cancer Care Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29202-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-29201-4Published: 05 June 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-29202-1Published: 10 May 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 364
Number of Illustrations: 87 b/w illustrations
Topics: Neurology, Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Neurosurgery, Pathology