Prostate Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Diagnosis and Management (Current Multidisciplinary Oncology) 1st Edition

“This book admirably covers prostate cancer. It is written in an easily digestible manner for non-experts and emphasizes the importance of a team approach to treatment of patients with this disease.”–Doody’s Reviews

With an emphasis on multidisciplinary collaboration and decision-making, this practical resource reflects the extraordinary advances in the treatment of prostate cancer during the past five years. Approximately thirty international, leading-edge investigators describe the most current evidence-based approaches to prostate cancer treatment. The book provides a comprehensive view of the entire spectrum of prostate cancer management from initial screening through novel and experimental treatments that have the potential for a major impact on practice.

The book first reviews fundamental issues including epidemiology, screening, risk reduction, diagnosis and pathologic characterization, staging, and imaging. This includes strategies for improving the accuracy of PSA screening and an update on controversies surrounding the ISUP Modified Gleason Score. The book covers novel molecular and genotype profiling in prostate cancer, including morphometric and systems pathology. Detailed information is provided on radiographic imaging for diagnosis and staging. The treatment sections of the book correspond to the staging of disease. The treatment of localized disease addresses the range of multidisciplinary management options including a discussion of prostate cancer’s impact on the quality of life. A detailed review of multimodal therapies (medical, surgical, and radiologic) addresses the treatment of localized advanced disease, and coverage of advanced metastatic prostate cancer reviews current management options including a range of promising novel and experimental agents. The book also discusses counseling the high-risk patient. Several chapters incorporate models of care delivery, patient navigation for multidisciplinary care, genomic and risk assessment, and comparative effects of research in treatment decision-making. The book is designed as a management text for all health care professionals who provide care for prostate cancer patients as well as patients, families, and advocates. Extensive references offer opportunities for additional study.

Key Features:

• Delineates a practical, concise approach to multidisciplinary management of prostate cancer
• Provides a wide range of perspectives and expertise
• Written and edited by an international, multidisciplinary team of prostate cancer specialists
• Focuses on such key issues as special populations, screening controversies, patient counseling, and quality of life
• Includes discussion of important emerging topics such as gene profiling and targeted therapies and comparative effectiveness data

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Oncology: Board and Certification Review 

Get the best possible score on the Oncology Exam

This StatPearls review (8th edition) is designed to help you maximize your score on the Oncology Exam. Our questions target the American Board of Internal Medicine® and American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine® content outlines and match the question structure. We have 1st, 2nd, and 3rd order multiple choice questions and four detailed teaching points to help you rapidly prepare and achieve the best score possible. The questions are updated annually by 915 authors and 992 editors to improve your learning experience and to better match exam requirements. The single best way to improve your performance is to DO MORE QUESTIONS!

Know The American Board of Internal Medicine® and American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine® Exam

The exam is approximately 7 hours and consists of 300 questions with a pass rate of 85%. The exam covers Hematologic Neoplasms – 14%, Thoracic Cancer – 11%, Breast Cancer – 13%, Genitourinary Cancer – 12%, Gynecologic Cancer – 4%, Gastrointestinal Cancer – 13.5%, Skin Cancer, Sarcomas, and Unknown Primary Sit – 6%, Anticancer Therapeutics, Clinical Research Methodology, and Ethics – 9.5%, Palliative Care, Survivorship, and Communication – 11%, Head, Neck, Thyroid, and Central Nervous System Malignancies – 4%, and Genetics, Genomics, and Tumor Biology – 2% .

About StatPearls

Started as an academic teaching project in 2014, StatPearls has grown into the largest library of medical education in the world. More than 7,500 medical authors and editors have published more than 8,000 peer-reviewed PubMed indexed articles covering every specialty in healthcare. Along with these articles are more than 75,000 multiple choice questions with teaching points related to the content were created. These questions were then matched to the content outlines for every board and certification exam in healthcare, including our Oncology Exam review. This effort by thousands of sub-specialty experts has made StatPearls the most-comprehensive review resource available.

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Cancer Biomarkers: Clinical Aspects and Laboratory Determination

Cancer Biomarkers: Clinical Aspects and Laboratory Determination provides a comprehensive overview of current biomarkers for cancer detection, monitoring and recurrence, focusing on emerging technologies, impacts on the field, and selected biomarkers currently used in clinical practice. The content highlights current laboratory tests used in the management of adult and pediatric cancer patients. In addition, it investigates the role of Circulating Tumor Cells and circulating tumor DNA as biomarkers in cancer management as well as cytokines in monitoring response to CAR T therapies.

This title is a perfect reference for clinical pathologists, laboratory scientists, medical technologists, physicians specializing in oncology, internal medicine, family practice and transplant medicine, resident physicians, medical students, nurse practitioners and clinical chemists.

• Provides insights into the overall complexity that the cancer patient presents and how laboratory tests are used in the management of care
• Discusses current and new technologies applicable to cancer biomarker evaluation, including the use of non-traditional specimens like saliva, fluids and uterine lavage
• Reviews current trends in liquid biopsy and cancer biomarkers
• Provides a roadmap for bringing new technologies and markers from the bench to the bedside in the quest for finding the ideal tumor marker

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Physics for Clinical Oncology (Radiotherapy in Practice) 2nd Edition

Radiotherapy remains a major non-surgical treatment modality for malignant disease, and an understanding of how this treatment works is essential in ensuring optimum practice. Trainees in oncology learn about ionising radiation, but to understand it fully they must also understand the physics relevant to its use in therapy.

This book is written specifically for the oncology and radiation team, supporting clinical oncologists in their understanding of the science which underpins radiotherapy. It begins with basic concepts and then explores the principles and practice of physics as it relates to radiotherapy, including discussion of specific types of therapy.

Written by authors chosen for their expertise in in their respective fields, and aligned to the Royal College of Radiologists FRCR Curriculum in Oncology, this volume will provide an excellent source of information for trainee and practicing oncologists, and wider radiotherapy teams. This second edition has been fully updated to reflect advances in technology and the increased complexity in modern radiotherapy, including two new chapters on imaging and a new brachytherapy chapter.

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Perez & Brady’s Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology (Perez and Bradys Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology) 7th Edition

Selected as a Doody’s Core Title for 2022 and 2023!

For more than 30 years, Perez and Brady’s Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology has been the must-have standard reference for radiation oncologists and radiation oncology residents who need a comprehensive text covering both the biological and physical science aspects of this complex field as well as disease site-specific information on the integrated, multidisciplinary management of patients with cancer. The book has established itself as the discipline’s “text-of-record,” belonging on the shelf of all of those working in the field. The Seventh Edition continues this tradition of excellence with extensive updates throughout, many new chapters, and more than 1,400 full-color illustrations that highlight key concepts in tumor pathogenesis, diagnosis, and targeted radiation therapy.

• Comprehensive coverage of the current state of knowledge of cancer biology; medical radiation physics; clinical radiation oncology; and radiation oncology economics, ethics, and public policy.
• Regular, twice-yearly content updates available with the digital version of the text.
• Ideal for radiation oncologists, radiation oncology residents, radiation biologists, medical radiation physicists, oncologists, physicists-in-training, radiation dosimetrists, and nurses and physician assistants working in radiation oncology departments.
• New chapters include: Proton and Carbon Ion Beam Dosimetry and Treatment Planning; Stereotactic Radiation Therapy; Re-Irradiation; Error Avoidance; Undergraduate, Graduate, and Continuing Medical Education in Radiation Oncology; and a completely rewritten chapter on the economics of radiation oncology.
• Designed to provide a better understanding of the natural history of cancer, the physical and technological methods of radiation application, the effects of irradiation on normal tissues, and the most judicious ways in which radiation therapy can be employed in the treatment of patients with cancer, either as a single modality or as part of a multi-modality treatment program.
• All references printed in the book are now streamlined for quick access to further information.
• Site-specific chapters include relevant background information on each tumor—including epidemiology, pathology, diagnostic work-up, prognostic factors, treatment techniques, applications of surgery, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and biological therapy, end results, and more.
• Increased focus on new approaches and technologies with new and updated chapters.
• Greater emphasis on palliative and supportive care reflects the role of radiation treatment in non-curative roles.
• An international group of expert chapter authors keeps you well-informed.
• A completely revised first chapter is designed to provide an overview of the discipline of radiation oncology. This will be particularly useful for residents beginning training and medical students beginning a radiation oncology clinical clerkship. The chapter is supplemented with multiple sidebars to augment the reader’s understanding of the field.

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DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg’s Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology (Cancer Principles and Practice of Oncology) Twelfth Edition

Selected as a Doody’s Core Title for 2023!


The standard-setting text in oncology for 40 years, DeVita, Hellman and Rosenberg’s Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, 12th Edition, provides authoritative guidance and strategies for managing every type of cancer by stage and presentation. Drs. Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., Theodore S. Lawrence, and Steven A. Rosenberg oversee an outstanding team of expert contributing authors who keep you up to date and fully informed in this fast-changing field. This award-winning reference is also continually updated on Health Library and VitalSource platforms for the life of the edition. 

• Integrates basic science into individual cancer chapters for more efficient reference 
• Features quarterly updates that include late-breaking developments in oncology such as new drugs and clinical trials, as well as new case studies and interactive algorithms 
• Offers balanced, multidisciplinary advice from a surgeon, a medical oncologist, and a radiation oncologist 
• Provides updated content on immunotherapy and genetics throughout 
• Includes important related topics such as cancer screening and prevention, palliative care, supportive oncology, and quality of life issues 

• Now available in a convenient single volume, or a seven-multivolume option for portability and ease of use 
   

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