Published November, 2009
By Lalitha Nagarajan
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Cancer Treatment and Research
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Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), is the most common form of leukemia in adults. Consequently, targeted therapy of AML is receiving much attention. It is the hope of researchers that as with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), and the drug, Gleevec, a targeted therapy for AML will be discovered.

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Published October, 2009
By M. Sharon Stack, David A. Fishman and M.Sharon Stack
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Cancer Treatment and Research
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Ovarian carcinoma continues to be responsible for more deaths than all other gynecologic malignancies combined, due to a continued inability to achieve detection of early (rather than advanced) stage disease and the lack of effective tumor-specific therapeutics.

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Published October, 2009
By Norman Jaffe, Oyvind S. Bruland, Stefan Bielack and Norman S. Jaffe
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Series: Cancer Treatment and Research
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Pediatric and Adolescent Osteosarcoma provides a historical review of the nature of osteosarcoma and the conflict that accompanied the introduction of adjuvant therapy for osteosarcoma culminating in accepted and prevailing methods of current therapy.

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Published August, 2009
By Christopher Turner, Stewart Goldman and Christopher D. Turner
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Series: Cancer Treatment and Research
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Late Effects of Treatment for Brain Tumors reviews the development of the medical team's awareness of late effects of brain tumor treatment and an overview of brain tumor survivorship. It reviews the late effects by topic and by organ systems, educates, and provides guidelines for follow up and interventions for patient survivorship.

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Published July, 2009
By Martine Piccart, Monica Castiglione, Martine J. Piccart-Gebhart and Martine J. Piccart
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Cancer Treatment and Research
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Adjuvant treatment is administered prior to or as follow up to surgical procedures for breast cancer. Proven success in using medical therapies allowing for breast conserving procedures or reducing risk of occurrence.

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Published May, 2009
By Eggert Stockfleth and Claas Ulrich
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Series: Cancer Treatment and Research
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This book examines the issues surrounding the increase in skin cancers as a consequence of the lowered cellular immunoresponse in transplant patients. The rise in incidence of this cancer seems to parallel the overall increase in their long-term survival rate.

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Published May, 2009
By David Green and Hau C. Kwaan
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Series: Cancer Treatment and Research
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Coagulation in Cancer informs professionals working in the field of cancer about the pathophysiologic mechanisms of cancer-related thrombosis and bleeding.

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Published December, 2008
By Michael R. Bishop
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Series: Cancer Treatment and Research
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During a particular session there was a presentation on the use of peripheral blood as the sole source of stem cells for transplantation, and a member of the audience rose to state that it was medically unethical to consider such treatment, as it certainly could not contain stem cells.

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Published December, 2008
By Suzanne A.W. Fuqua and Suzanne A. W. Fuqua
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Cancer Treatment and Research
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Hormone Receptors in Breast Cancer provides an up-to-date resource of the role of hormone receptors in breast cancer written in depth for both the basic molecular academic researcher and translational scientist.

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Published October, 2008
By Peter Angelos
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Series: Cancer Treatment and Research
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This second edition addresses a variety of ethical issues that arise in the care of oncology patients. Ethical Issues in Cancer Patient Care, Second Edition will have direct importance for practicing physicians, nurses and others caring for cancer patients.

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