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- Details how cancer is treated through the lens of approximately 250 clinical trials
- Relevant and informative across the disciplines of surgery, medical oncology, and radiation oncology
- Concise and focused on the great clinical trials and how they have shaped current cancer treatment
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book describes the evolution of treatment in oncology through the lens of approximately 250 landmark clinical trials. The well-designed clinical trial is essential to the practice of medicine. There is no field that has embraced or been transformed more by the clinical trial than oncology.
Each primary cancer site has a remarkable story that can be told through clinical trials. For example, patients who presented decades ago with soft tissue sarcoma of the extremities would invariably undergo limb amputation. The landmark National Cancer Institute study by Rosenberg et al. randomized patients to limb sparing surgery followed by adjuvant radiation therapy compared with limb amputation. This study helped change the standard of care by allowing most patients to retain their functioning limbs with an improvement in quality of life and no compromise in overall survival. Such major clinical trials for common malignancies including breast, prostate, lung, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and gynecologic cancers are discussed.
Because oncology is multidisciplinary, this book should be of interest for radiation oncologists, surgeons, medical oncologists, and other physicians interested in learning more about the landmark trials that have shaped oncology.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Radiation Oncology Consultants (ROC), Chicago, USA
Santosh Yajnik
About the author
Santosh V. Yajnik, M.D. is a radiation oncologist with Radiation Oncology Consultants. He is Medical Director of Radiation Oncology and Chair of the Cancer Committee at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. He has published widely in radiation oncology and is author of Proton Beam Therapy (Springer, 2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Landmark Trials in Oncology
Authors: Santosh Yajnik
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14405-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14404-3Published: 22 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14407-4Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14405-0Published: 17 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 325
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 70 illustrations in colour
Topics: Radiotherapy, Oncology, Surgical Oncology