Selected Topics in Clinical Oncology

By Prof.Dr.A.T.Van Oosterom Head of the Department of Oncology at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium The word cancer defines over 180 different diseases. Some occurring quite often and are well known, others are very rare and sometimes so unknown that the diagnosis is not even suspected at operation. In this book, Dr.Debois, a retired radiation oncologist, describes a selected group of cancer types, some of which are difficult to find in the standard textbooks, in a logical format starting with their bibliography, history, incidence, anatomy, clinical presentation, diagnosis and staging, treatment and follow-up. For the general oncologist in the community it gives the appropriate data to understand the described diseases and to familiarize him with the peculiar patient he has identified. The many tables and figures in every chapter contain an enormous amount of data difficult to collect without extensive searches. The mix of historical and new (genetic) data makes reading attractive. In my opinion this book will find his place in the library of every oncologist who wants to know more about the rarer tumors he or she encounters. We know a lot about the common tumors but too little about the diseases described here.

Autorentext

Dr. J.M. Debois is a retired radiation oncologist with forty years of academic and private practice. He has published two other books and more than a hundred articles, of which several appeared in peer-reviewed periodicals, case reports and reviews.

Klappentext

There are many excellent textbooks on General Oncology. Due to the enormous volume of the scientific knowledge, classic textbooks, however, have to master and squeeze all this into an acceptable number of pages. The result is that less frequently encountered tumorous conditions are not fully addressed compared with chapters on breast, bronchus and colonic cancers. The author has selected 18 cancers which are usually neglected in classic textbooks due to space and volume problems. Reviewing the nevertheless extensive literature on these tumours, one will observe the remarkable diversity in their presentation, adding to the difficulties of their diagnosis. Sometimes patients present differently to specialists, further dispersing the knowledge and the experience on these rare conditions. Dedicated teams and even institutes have been set up to study some of these cancers, enlarging the knowledge and experience but also dramatically enhancing the treatment results and survival rates. This book is a guide for the oncology-minded specialist from cardiologist to gastro- enterologist and from ophthalmologist to thoracic surgeon. It provides updated knowledge on the different cancers discussed, generally dispersed in the still more diversifying medical literature, wherein it is progressively more difficult to obtain an overview, even in selected and frequently limited reviews.

Inhalt
1 Carcinoma of the Parathyroid.- 2 Paraganglioma (Glomus Tumors).- 3 Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma.- 4 Endocrine Tumors of the GIT.- 5 Carcinoids.- 6 Primary Tumors of the Heart.- 7 Tumors of the Adrenal Cortex.- 8 Pheochromocytoma.- 9 Carcinoma of the Fallopian Tube.- 10 Gestational Trophoblastic Diseases.- 11 Cancer of the Salivary Gland.- 12 Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- 13 Cancer of the Gallbladder.- 14 Cancer of the Extrahepatic Bile Duct.- 15 Cancer of the Small Intestine.- 16 Malignant Tumors of the Appendix.- 17 Malignant Tumors of the Cecum.- 18 Malignant Tumors of the Anus.- Illustration credits.