Coagulation in Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kwaan, Hau C. (Editor), Green, David. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Series: Cancer Treatment and Research, 148
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Hematology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cancer Research.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79962-9

Coagulation in Cancer informs medical professionals working in the field of cancer of the pathophysiologic mechanisms of cancer-related thrombosis and bleeding. It provides assistance in recognizing the various bleeding and clotting disorders associated with cancer and includes current recommendatio...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Alterations in Hemostasis Due to Cancer
• Dysregulation of Hemostasis by Cancer
• Effect of Cancer on Platelets
• Activation of Clotting Factors in Cancer
• The Role of Plasminogen-Plasmin System in Cancer
• The Coagulation System and Angiogenesis
• Overview of Cancer and Thrombosis
• Risk Factors for Thrombosis in Cancer Patients
• Thrombotic Microangiopathic Syndromes
• Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in Cancer
• Chemotherapy-associated Thrombosis
• Catheter-related Thrombosis
• Thrombosis in Childhood Cancer
• Treatment of Venous Thrombosis
• Effects of Anticoagulants on Cancer: Heparins
• Bleeding Disorders Associated with Cancer
• Thrombocytopenia and Cancer
• Bleeding Disorders Associated with Cancer Dysproteinemias
• Control of Bleeding in Cancer
• Index.