Main description:

This book is a comprehensive guide to the principles and practice of cancer management. Beginning with an introduction to medical oncology and its management, the following sections examine common types of cancer and their chemo- and radiation therapies. More than 200 images and illustrations are included to assist understanding.

Contents:

Section-A: Medical Oncology.

1. Concepts of Cancer Chemotherapy

2. Chemotherapeutic Drugs

4. New Hope with Gene Therapy

5. Side Effects of Chemotherapy

6. Hormone Treatment in Cancer

Section-B: General Management in Oncology.

7. Management of Cancer Pain

8. Management of Anemia

9. Management of Bleeding in Cancer Patient's

10. Role of Steroids in Cancer

11. Role of Antacids

Section-C: Common Cancer and its Management.

12. Management of Cervical Cancer

13. Breast Cancer Management

14. Palliative Treatment in Breast Cancer

15. Head and Neck Cancer

16. Ovarian Cancer

17. Endometrial Cancer

18. Hodgkin's Lymphoma

19. Non-Hodgkin's

20. Gallbladder Cancer

21. Lung Cancer

22. Carcinoma Larynx

23. Nasopharynx Carcinoma (NPC)

24. Thyroid Cancer

25. Leukemia.

26. Neuroendocrine Tumor

Section-D: Radiation Oncology

27. Radioactivity

28. Measurement of X-ray

29. Principles of Radiation Therapy

30. Time, Dose and Fractionation in Radiotherapy

31. Effects of Radiation on Normal Human Tissue

32. Latest Radiotherapy Technique

33. Imaging in Oncology

34. Radiation Oncologist with Benign Tumors

Bibliography

Index