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Peritoneal Carcinomatosis
Paul H. . Ed(S): Sugarbaker
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Description for Peritoneal Carcinomatosis
Hardback. This text examines the pharmacology of the drugs most likely to be employed as agents for intraperitoneal chemotherapy. It aims to stimulate work in this field, conferring benefits in terms of quality of life and survival on cancer patients. Editor(s): Sugarbaker, Paul H. Series: Cancer Treatment and Research. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MJCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 804.
Peritoneal carcinomatosis dominates the clinical picture of many patients with gastrointestinal, gynecological and urological cancers. For many of them its dev astating effects contribute directly to their death. Most clinicians consider peritoneal carcinomatosis an incurable metastatic disease and give palliative treatment, re stricted to limited surgery and systemic chemotherapy. Contrary to this view, Paul Sugarbaker and his collegues base their approach on the concept that peritoneal carcinomatosis represents regional tumor spread, similar in its impact on treatment and prognosis to that of lymph node metastases in other malignancies. This concept emphasises the value of regional tumor control, as a potentially ... Read more
Peritoneal carcinomatosis dominates the clinical picture of many patients with gastrointestinal, gynecological and urological cancers. For many of them its dev astating effects contribute directly to their death. Most clinicians consider peritoneal carcinomatosis an incurable metastatic disease and give palliative treatment, re stricted to limited surgery and systemic chemotherapy. Contrary to this view, Paul Sugarbaker and his collegues base their approach on the concept that peritoneal carcinomatosis represents regional tumor spread, similar in its impact on treatment and prognosis to that of lymph node metastases in other malignancies. This concept emphasises the value of regional tumor control, as a potentially ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Cancer Treatment and Research
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792337263
SKU
V9780792337263
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