Overview
- Provides an overview of the basic medical, scientific, and clinical aspects of cancer
- Covers causes of cancer, pathology, clinical features, diagnostic investigations, treatments, and outcomes
- Includes updates since the first edition, especially on personalized medicine and regional chemotherapy
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Cancer Problem
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Front Matter
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General Features of Cancer-Presentation and Management
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Reviews
“The book describes oncology at a basic level, discussing clinical aspects of cancer, how and why people develop cancer, how the body reacts to cancer, and how cancer presents in adult patients. … This is a great book to get a broad overview of the field of adult oncology. It is a good book for a student or someone new to the field of oncology.” (Melissa Mason, Doody’s Book Reviews, March, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Prof. Dr. med. Aigner is one of the world’s pioneers in the field of regional chemotherapy. He has been involved with regional chemotherapy for over 30 years and today he is considered as one of the world’s most experienced experts in this treatment method. Numerous lectures and guest operations in the USA, Japan, China, Israel, Egypt, Australia and a number of other countries, as well as over 200 professional publications, lectures and guest operations both in Germany and abroad attest to his medical commitment to RCT – regional chemotherapy.
Prof. Aigner completed his medical studies and his basic surgical training in cardiovascular surgery at the University of Erlangen. He obtained his habilitation doctorate in surgical oncology at the University of Giessen, with a research focus in techniques of regional chemotherapy. In 1981, Prof Aigner developed a technique for performing the first isolated liver perfusion in humans using a heart-lung machine, and over subsequentyears a variety of additional surgical procedures and specialized catheters for isolated therapy of organs and parts of the body, including the treatment of pancreatic carcinoma.
From 1986 until 1991, Prof. Aigner was Chief Physician for Surgery at the Kreiskrankenhaus Trostberg am Chiemsee, and until 2001, he was the Chief Physician in the Department of Oncological Surgery at the Asklepios Paulinen Clinic in Wiesbaden. From 2002 until 2005 he led the Department of oncological surgery at the Medias Klinik GmbH in Ransbach-Baumbach. Since 2006 Prof. Aigner has been the Medical Director of the Medias Klinikum GmbH & Co KG, a private clinic for oncological surgery in Burghausen (Salzach).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Basics of Oncology
Authors: Frederick O. Stephens, Karl Reinhard Aigner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23368-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23367-3Published: 30 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23368-0Published: 17 December 2015
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIII, 389
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oncology, General Practice / Family Medicine, Nursing