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Medical Oncology Compendium

  • 1st Edition - April 16, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Ramon Andrade B de Mello
  • Language: English

Medical Oncology Compendium discusses several important topics in oncology with the help of leading experts worldwide who incorporate not only knowledge on recent developme… Read more

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Description

Medical Oncology Compendium discusses several important topics in oncology with the help of leading experts worldwide who incorporate not only knowledge on recent developments in the field, but contextualize them within diverse socioeconomic environments to guarantee the applicability of the content in challenging scenarios. The book comprehensively discusses topics such as surgery, radiology, carcinogenesis, screening, assessment tools, evidence-based medicine, and precision oncology as applicable to different cancer types as non-small and small cell lung cancer, mesothelioma, breast cancer, gastric-rectal cancer, female specific cancers, prostate, skin and bone sarcomas.

In addition, it discusses options to minimize oncology pain and palliative care. It is a valuable resource for oncologists, clinicians, researchers, healthcare workers and members of biomedical field who needs to understand more about diagnosis, treatment options and support for cancer patients.

Key features

  • Presents clinical vision consensus from global experts in the field to leverage knowledge sharing worldwide
  • Illustrates the content with tables and medical images especially developed for the book
  • Encompasses clinical case discussions at the end of each chapter to sediment theory and practice and improve medicine evidence-based care

Readership

Clinical and medical oncologists, cancer researchers, Radiation oncologists, surgeons, graduate students, medical residents

Table of contents

1. Principles of medical oncology

2. Principles of surgeon oncology

3. Principles of radiation oncology

4. Molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis

5. Cancer Screening and diagnosis

6. Pharmacological basis of the Anti-cancer Drugs

7. Principles of pharmaco-economy and decision making in oncology

8. Health Technologies Assessment Tools in oncology

9. Biostatistics in oncology (evidence-based medicine)

10. Radiological response assessment methods in oncology

11. The role of interventional radiology in oncology

12. Innovation Technologies & Precision Oncology

13. Small Cell Lung cancer

14. Mesothelioma

15. Thymus

16. Breast Cancer Screening

17. Breast Diagnosis Techniques

18. Early Breast Cancer

19. Metastatic Breast Cancer

20. Oesophageal

21. Gastric

22. Colon

23. Rectal

24. Anal Canal Cancer

25. Small intestine

26. Hepatocellular Carcinoma

27. Pancreatic Cancer

28. Ovarian

29. Cervical

30. Vagina

31. Gestacional trophoblastic disease

32. Prostate Cancer

33. Renal Cell Carcinoma

34. Urothelial Cancer

35. Germ-Cell Tumors

36. Squamous Head and neck

37. Thyroid cancer

38. Parotid Gland Tumors

39. Non-melanoma skin cancer

40. Melanoma skin cancer

41. Soft Tissue Sarcomas

42. Bone Sarcomas

42. GIST

44. NET

45. Primary brain tumor

46. Hodgkin Lymphoma

47. Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

48. Multiple Myeloma

49. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

50. Acute Myelogenous Leukemia

51. Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

52. Crhonic Lymphocitic Leukemia

53. Myelodisplastic Syndrome

54. Anti-cancer drugs Imuno-related adverses events

55. Metabolic disturbance/paraneoplasic syndromes

56. Spinal medular compression

57. Superior vena cava syndrome

58. Febrile neutropenia

59. Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting

60. Asthenia

61. Oncological pain

62. Bone Metastases

63. Brain metastasis

64. Palliative care

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 16, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Ramon Andrade B de Mello

Prof. Ramon Andrade Bezerra de Mello is a board-certified medical oncologist in Portugal, UK, and Brazil. He has over 19 years of clinical and academic experience in Europe where he worked full time in well reputed cancer institutions, such as Portuguese Institute of Oncology of Porto, University of Porto, Portugal, and Edinburgh Cancer Center, UK. Since, Prof. Mello delivered his tasks as a humanized and high-level doctor dedicated to providing the best care for his patients alongside the vanguard of oncology research, as well as teaching medical students and training juniors doctors. Currently, he is the Head of the Discipline of Medical Oncology at the Translational Medicine Post-Graduation Program and Head of the Lung & Skin Medical Oncology Clinic at Paulista School of Medicine, UNIFESP. In addition, he is Director of the Precision Oncology and Health Economics Research Group with more than 20 national/international members in a core structure with the Post-Graduation Program of Medicine, Nine of July University, in collaboration with UNIFESP and Faculty of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, University of Algarve, Portugal, where he is still invited Professor of Oncology.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Medical Oncology, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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