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- Describes current treatment approaches and novel therapies
- Explains the importance of advances in understanding of glioma biology
- Discusses new clinical trial designs
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Cancer Treatment and Research (CTAR, volume 163)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book reviews the significant advances in our understanding of glioma biology that have been achieved during the past decade and describes in detail the resultant new approaches to treatment. Improvements in surgical techniques, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy are comprehensively covered, with discussion of their impact in decreasing patient morbidity and increasing survival. In addition, individual chapters are devoted specifically to current treatment for low-grade gliomas, anaplastic gliomas, and glioblastoma multiforme. Other topics addressed include treatment of the elderly patient, Â investigating emerging therapies from small molecules to immunotherapy and palliative care. This timely book will be a valuable source of up-to-date information for practitioners and will also be of interest to researchers.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Neurology, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
Jeffrey Raizer
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Department of Neurosurgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
Andrew Parsa
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Current Understanding and Treatment of Gliomas
Editors: Jeffrey Raizer, Andrew Parsa
Series Title: Cancer Treatment and Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12048-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12047-8Published: 12 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38043-8Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12048-5Published: 02 December 2014
Series ISSN: 0927-3042
Series E-ISSN: 2509-8497
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 184
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oncology, Neurology, Radiotherapy