Surgery in Multimodal Management of Solid Tumors

• Main Authors: Bolognese, Antonio. (Author), Izzo, Luciano. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan, 2009.
• Series: Updates in Surgery
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiotherapy.; Oncology.; Cancer > Surgery.; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; General Surgery.; Surgical Oncology.; Molecular Medicine.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1085-7

Surgery continues to be the most effective treatment of solid tumors in terms of recovery, while its combination with other treatments improves the survival curves especially in the advanced forms of the disease. The aim of my task first of all has been to provide readers with both the current and c...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Surgery and tumors
• Co-operation surgeon  Pathologist
• Molecular biology and genetics of cancer
• The point of view of medical oncologist
• The point of view of radiation oncologist
• Personal experiences and selected cases: Liver metastases. Gastric cancer. Cancer of the exocrine pancreas. Peritoneal carcinomatosis. Colorectal cancer and pelvic recurrences.