Hepatobiliary cancer

Hepatobiliary cancer

by Abou-Alfa, Ghassan K. Deng, Gary Dong, Jia-Hong Dupuy, Damian E. Fong, Yuman

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Hepatobiliary cancers have yielded to technological advances in imaging and therapy so that diagnosis of these cancers no longer carries with it a prognosis of certain death. The international group of experts who have contributed the chapters to this volume from world-class cancer center provide a summary of the current state of the art for diagnosis and treatment on hepatobiliary cancers. The institutions represented include Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, …

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  • Full title :Hepatobiliary cancer / editors: Yuman Fong, MD, FACS, Murray F. Brennan Chair in Surgery, Co-director, Center for Image-Guided Interventions, Member, Departments of Surgery and Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Professor of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, Jia-Hong Dong, MD, FACS, Professor and Chairman, Hospital & Institute of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Chinese PLA Medical Postgraduate School, Beijing, China ; section editors: Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, Associate Member, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, Gary Deng, MD, PhD, Associate Member, Attending Physician, Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, Damian E. Dupuy, MD, FACR, Director of Tumor Ablation at Rhode Island Hospital, Professor of Diagnostic Imaging, the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

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Hepatobiliary cancers have yielded to technological advances in imaging and therapy so that diagnosis of these cancers no longer carries with it a prognosis of certain death. The international group of experts who have contributed the chapters to this volume from world-class cancer center provide a summary of the current state of the art for diagnosis and treatment on hepatobiliary cancers. The institutions represented include Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Mayo Clinic, Brown University, Columbia University, Northwestern University, UC San Francisco, Sanjay Gandhi Institute, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, the University of Heidelberg, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Hong Kong, Fudan University/Shanghai Cancer Center, Florida International University, the Institute of Cancer Studies, University Hospital, Birmingham (UK), and the University of Tokyo. The book looks at these cancers by type -- biliary and liver tumors -- and in terms of diagnostic techniques and therapies: surgical, ablative, systemic and regional chemotherapies, biologic, and complementary. This volume is essential reading for anyone engaged in learning about and treating hepatobiliary cancers. -- Provided by publisher.

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  • Publication Date:2014.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xiv, 521 pages) : : illustrations (chiefly color)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781607950165, 1607950162, 160795222X, 9781607952220, 9781607952220
  • oclc:ocn911042843
  • LC Classification:RC280.L5
  • Dewey Decimal:616.99/436

Subjects

Biliary Tract Neoplasms -- diagnosis Biliary Tract Neoplasms -- therapy Liver -- Cancer Liver Neoplasms -- diagnosis Liver Neoplasms -- therapy

Writers

Abou-Alfa, Ghassan K. Deng, Gary Dong, Jia-Hong Dupuy, Damian E. Fong, Yuman

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