Colorectal Cancer

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Epidemiology/Prevention

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Biology and Molecular Genetics of Colorectal Cancer

      • Scott K. Kuwada, Deborah W. Neklason, Randall W. Burt

      Pages 3-21

   3. Epidemiological Trends in Colorectal Cancer

      • Susan M. Talbot, Alfred I. Neugut

      Pages 23-46

   4. Dietary and Lifestyle Influences on Colorectal Carcinogenesis

      • Charles S. Fuchs

      Pages 47-64

   5. Screening and Surveillance

      • Arnold J. Markowitz

      Pages 65-80

   6. Chemoprevention of Colorectal Cancer

      • Monica M. Bertagnolli

      Pages 81-98

   7. Management of Hereditary Colon Cancer Syndromes

      • Miguel A. Rodriguez-Bigas, Nicholas J. Petrelli

      Pages 99-114

3. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. Overview of CT, MRI, and Ultrasound in the Imaging and Staging of Colorectal Cancer

      • David J. Vining

      Pages 117-126

   3. Virtual Colonoscopy for Colorectal Cancer Screening and Surveillance

      • David T. Rubin, Abraham H. Dachman

      Pages 127-141

   4. Preoperative Staging of Rectal Cancer

      • Spiros Hiotis, Sharon Weber, W. Douglas Wong

      Pages 143-156

   5. Nuclear Medicine in the Diagnosis and Management of Colorectal Cancer

      • Stanley J. Goldsmith, Lale Kostakoglu

      Pages 157-177

   6. Radiation Therapy of Resectable Rectal Cancer

      • Nora A. Janjan, Matthew Ballo, Christopher Crane, Marc Delclos

      Pages 179-208

   7. Management of Locally Unresectable Rectal Cancer

      • Bruce D. Minsky

      Pages 209-231

   8. Radiation Therapy for Hepatic Metastases

      • John M. Robertson

      Pages 233-243

4. Surgery of Colorectal Cancer

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245

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   2. Surgical Pathology of Colorectal Cancer

      • Carolyn C. Compton

      Pages 247-265

   3. Surgery of Colon Cancer

      • Alfred T. Culliford IV, Philip B. Paty

      Pages 267-290

   4. Laparoscopy in Colorectal Cancer Management

      • Heidi Nelson, Bernardo Tisminezky

      Pages 291-324

The rapid growth in the number of options available for the management of colorectal cancer presents the clinician with new opportunities and new complexities. An explosion of understanding in the basic science that underlies both the disease and its potential therapies has translated into remarkable technological advances that can now be applied. So many specialties and subspecialties have now been brought to bear that it is appropriate to attempt to bring the expertise from these areas together in one volume, so that practitioners in one aspect of colorectal cancer management can maintain knowledge and expertise regarding the capabilities of other colleagues working in this disease. Colo rectal Cancer: Multimodality Management provides a concise, focused, and current review of the methodological and technological advances that have recently occurred in the management of colorectal cancer. The book has been divided into six basic parts. The first part, dealing with epidemiology and prevention, focuses on the molecular genetic events that occur in the development of colorectal cancer, as well as on our understanding of dietary and environmental factors, and possible strategies for prevention. Part II focuses on both diagnos­ tic and therapeutic radiology in the management of colorectal cancer, dealing with innumer­ able advances in imaging, and with the progress in the science and art of radiation therapy. The third section deals with the surgical aspects of management of colorectal cancer, starting with surgical pathology.

• CT
• Cancer Screening
• Staging
• adjuvant therapy
• carcinogenesis
• computed tomography (CT)
• fertility
• imaging
• liver
• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• pain
• pathology
• prevention
• radiology
• surgery

"This is a good book, which contains most of the most recent information an oncologists dealing with colorectal cancer would aim to know and is therefore a very useful addition to every specialized library." - Digestive and Liver Disease

"A team of leading clinical, surgical and radiation oncologists has prepared a highly valuable work, providing full complexity of the latest innovations in the field of colorectal cancer management. The book represents an outstanding work and will be of great interest for medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, gastroenterologists and radiation therapists." -Neoplasma

• Gastrointestinal Oncology Division, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

  Leonard B. Saltz

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