Features

Essential principles of chemotherapy, surgery, radiation therapy, and immunotherapy
Examines the effects of cancer on pregnancy and of pregnancy on cancer
Summarises treatment results in abundant tables
67 new authors
New chapters include Principles of Cancer Prevention * Cancer and Pregnancy * Clinical Trial Design and Interpretation of Data * Gene Therapy for Cancer * Natural History and Pre-treatment Evaluation of non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas
Latest knowledge on haematologic growth factors
updated section on patient support
Thoroughly revised section on breast cancer, including new information on genetic predisposing factors and sentinal lymph node biopsies
Updated discussion of soft tissue sarcomas and bone tumours
Outlines the new WHO reclassification of lymphomas and leukaemias

Contents

PART 1: PRINCIPLES OF CANCER TREATMENT
PART 2: DRUG THERAPY
PART 3: HEMATOLOGIC CONSIDERATIONS IN CANCER TREATMENT
PART 4: SUPPORTIVE CARE AND SELECTED MANAGEMENT ISSUES
PART 5: CANCER IN SPECIAL POPULATIONS
PART 6: INVESTIGATIONAL THERAPY
PART 7: CLINICAL PRACTICE ISSUES
PART 8: BREAST CANCER
PART 9: NEOPLASMS OF THE LUNG, PLEURA, AND MEDIASTINUM
PART 10: NEOPLASMS OF THE GASTROINTESINAL SYSTEM
PART 11: GENITOURINARY NEOPLASMS
PART 12: GYNECOLOGIC NEOPLASMS
PART 13: HEAD AND NECK CANCER
PART 14: ENDOCRINE AND NEUROENDOCRINE NEOPLASMS
PART 15: PRIMARY NEOPLASMS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
PART 16: MELANOMA AND SKIN CANCER
PART 17: PEDIATRIC NEOPLASMS
PART 18: SARCOMAS
PART 19: MYELOID NEOPLASMS
PART 20: LYMPHOID NEOPLASMS
PART 21: NEOPLASMS RELATED TO THE ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS)
PART 22: MANAGEMENT OF METASTATIC CANCER