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Managing infections that complicate care of neutropenic patients with leukemia and hematopoietic stem cell recipients has become a distinct specialty. InManaging Infections in Patients with Hematological Malignancies, the authors and editor draw on their extensive...
Editeur :
Humana
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2009-10-20
Collection :
Contemporary Hematology
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This volume will explore the latest findings in research into the genetics of breast and reproductive cancers, covering the epidemiological aspects of these cancers, their etiology, the effect of environment on genes and cancer etiology, and how research in this area...
Editeur :
Springer
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2009-10-03
Collection :
Cancer Genetics
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln, 1862 When I came across this quote, it made me...
Editeur :
Springer
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2009-09-25
Collection :
Cancer Treatment and Research
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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Metastatic lung cancer is responsible for more than ninety percent of lung cancer related deaths. However, relatively little progress has been made in understanding the process of lung cancer metastasis. The...
Editeur :
Springer
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2009-09-18
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Modern imaging methods have made it possible to detect breast cancer at an earlier stage than in the past. Nevertheless, a large majority of suspicious findings at screening subsequently prove to be benign. It is therefore important to be able to identify benign lesions...
Editeur :
Springer
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2009-09-17
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The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results.The Novartis...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2009-09-16
Collection :
Novartis Foundation Symposia
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The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results.The Novartis...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2009-09-16
Collection :
Novartis Foundation Symposia
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Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. Here, once again, outstanding and original reviews are presented on a variety of topics, including tumor dormancy, micro RNA, tumor angiogenesis, cancer...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2009-09-12
epub sans DRM
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Adjuvant treatment is administered prior to or as follow up to surgical procedures for breast cancer. Proven success in using medical therapies allowing for breast conserving procedures or reducing risk of occurrence. Although there has been much progress towards a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-07-11
Collection :
Cancer Treatment and Research
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Pharmaceutical Perspectives of Cancer Therapeutics covers a wide variety of therapeutic approaches including gene therapy, immunological therapy; cancer vaccines; strategy for solid tumors as well as for hematological cancers; methods to suppress tumor angiogenesis and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-06-23
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Chemokines are a superfamily of low molecular weight cytokines that were initially described based on their ability to induce the directed migration of leukocytes to sites of inflammation or injury. In humans, there are approximately 45 chemokines that bind to 19...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2009-06-12
Collection :
Cancer Drug Discovery and Development
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Transfusion Medicine and Hemostasis is a manual-style book that links transfusion medicine and hemostasis to laboratory methods and diagnostic tests engaged in routine and specialized coagulation laboratories. The book is divided into two main parts with chapters that...
Editeur :
Elsevier Science
Parution :
2009-06-09
epub sans DRM
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Summarizing molecular aspects, diagnostic as well as therapeutic issues, this book is the very first and most comprehensive on hereditary aspects of tumor diseases. All the contributors have been made fellows of the Ingrid zu Solms Foundation due to their outstanding...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-05-13
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Coagulation in Cancer informs professionals working in the field of cancer about the pathophysiologic mechanisms of cancer-related thrombosis and bleeding. It provides assistance in recognizing the various bleeding and clotting disorders associated with cancer and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-04-21
Collection :
Cancer Treatment and Research
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Lung Cancer is the most common cause of cancer death and cancer symptoms. The ABC ofLung Cancer is a much needed reference for those treating and caring for patients with lung cancer such as primary care doctors, specialist cancer nurses, junior doctors, nurses,...
Editeur :
BMJ Books
Parution :
2009-04-08
Collection :
ABC Series
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Hyaluronan biology is being recognized as an important regulator of cancer progression. Paradoxically, both hyaluronan (HA) and hyaluronidases, the enzymes that eliminate HA, have also been correlated with cancer progression. Hyaluronan, a long-chain polymer of the...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2009-03-07
epub sans DRM
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The epidermal gro wth factor (EGF ) receptor and its downstream signal transduction networks have been implicated in the ontology and maintenance of tumor tissues, which has motivated the discovery and development of molecularly targeted anti-EGF receptor therapies....
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2009-03-01
Collection :
Cancer Drug Discovery and Development
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Supportive care of the cancer patient begins with the diagnosis of cancer and terminates with the end of life. The supportive care is for symptoms related to the cancer and/or its treatment; physical, psychosocial and emotional issues associated with the cancer....
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2009-01-07
Collection :
Cancer Drug Discovery and Development
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Patients with cancer can suffer from a bewildering variety of neurologic signs and symptoms. The neurologic symptoms are often more disabling than the primary cancer. Symptoms including confusion, seizures, pain and paralysis may be a result of either metastases to the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-10-10
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The number of factors implicated in the regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation is already considerable and more are continually being identified. This book concentrates on tumor necrosis factor (cachectin) and lymphotoxin, but includes observations of...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2008-04-30
Collection :
Novartis Foundation Symposia
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