Hepatobiliary Cancer — Yuman Fong (2013)

Book Description

Hepatobiliary cancers have yielded to technological advances in imaging and therapy so that diagnosis of these cancers no longer carries with it a prognosis of certain death.The international group of experts who have contributed the chapters to this volume from world-class cancer center provide a summary of the current state of the art for diagnosis and treatment on hepatobiliary cancers. The institutions represented include Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Mayo Clinic, Brown University, Columbia University, Northwestern University, UC San Francisco, Sanjay Gandhi Institute, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, the University of Heidelberg, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Hong Kong, Fudan University/Shanghai Cancer Center, Florida International University, the Institute of Cancer Studies, University Hospital, Birmingham (UK), and the University of Tokyo.The book looks at these cancers by type – biliary and liver tumors – and in terms of diagnostic techniques and therapies: surgical, ablative, systemic and regional chemotherapies, biologic, and complementary.This volume is essential reading for anyone engaged in learning about and treating hepatobiliary cancers”

Book Details

• Author: Yuman Fong
• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Published Date: 2013
• Published Year: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 9781607952220