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Lower Gastrointestinal Malignancies. This issue of Radiation Medicine Rounds focuses on lower gastrointestinal malignancies. The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2009 there were a total of 152,000 new cases of colorectal and anal cancers diagnosed with over 50,000 deaths from these cancers....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ben-Josef, Edgar, Koong, Albert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Demos Medical, ©2010.
Colección:Radiation medicine rounds ; v. 1, issue 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The evolution of modern systemic agents for colorectal cancer / Gregory Heestand, Pamela Kunz, and George A. Fisher
  • Neoadjuvant treatment of rectal cancer / Christopher G. Willett and Brian G. Czito
  • Patient selection for adjuvant therapy of rectal cancer / Stephen L. Harris and Joel E. Tepper
  • Intensity modulated radiation therapy in the treatment of rectal cancer : current evidence and directions for the future / Michael C. Garofalo and Tracey E Schefter
  • Short course versus long course preoperative radiation therapy in rectal cancer / Amanda Clarke, James D. Brierley, and John Kim
  • Management of T1/T2 rectal cancers with transanal excision and radiation therapy / Niraj Mehta, Daniel T. Chang, and Percy Lee
  • Management of patients with distal rectal cancer and complete clinical response to neoadjuvant chemoradiation / Angelita Habr-Gama [and others]
  • Predictors of outcome in rectal cancer / Pierre Bohanes and Heinz-Josef Lenz
  • Management of anal canal cancer : current chemoradiation strategies and investigations into intensity-modulated radiation therapy / Karyn A. Goodman, Tina Dasgupta, and Lisa A. Kachnic
  • Predictors of outcome for anal cancer / Prajnan Das and Christopher H. Crane
  • Management of anal dysplasia / Carlos Eduardo Pineda and Mark Lane Welton.