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Title
ALERT - Adverse Late Effects of Cancer Treatment. Volume 1, General concepts and specific precepts / Philip Rubin, Louis S. Constine, Lawrence B. Marks, editors.
ISBN
9783540723134
3540723137
130620027X (electronic book)
9781306200271 (electronic book)
9783540723141
3540723145
9783540723141
Publication Details
Berlin : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-540-72314-1 doi
Call Number
RC270.8
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.99/406
615.842
Summary
The literature on the late effects of cancer treatment is widely scattered in different journals since all major organ systems are affected and management is based on a variety of medical and surgical treatments. The aim of ALERT - Adverse Late Effects of Cancer Treatment is to offer a coherent multidisciplinary approach to the care of cancer survivors. The central paradigm is that cytotoxic multimodal therapy results in a perpetual cascade of events that affects each major organ system differently and is expressed continually over time. Essentially, radiation and chemotherapy are intense biologic modifiers that allow for cancer cure and cancer survivorship but accelerate senescence of normal tissues and increase the incidence of age-related diseases and second malignant tumors. Volume 1 of this two-volume work focuses on the general concepts and principles relevant to late effects and on the dynamic interplay of molecular, cytologic and histopathologic events that lead to altered physiologic and metabolic functions and their clinical manifestations. Chapters are also included on legal issues, economic aspects, nursing, psychological issues and quality of life.
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Series
Medical radiology (Series)
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Print version: 9781306200271
BioContinuum of Effects of Multimodal Therapy
BioMolecular Mechanisms and Pathways of Normal Tissue Damage
BioPathology of Radiation and Chemotherapy
BioImaging of the Longitudinal Normal Tissue Injury
BioScoring Systems for Acute and Late Effects
BioPediatric Complexities of Growth and Development
Bioepidemiology
BioGenetic and Host Implications
Radiotherapy-Induced Biocarcinogenesis and Leukemogenesis
BioManagement and BioPrevention.-BioSurveillance and Longitudinal Lifelong Guidelines
Specific Precept: Medical Legal Issues: Malpractice Issues
Insurance, Economics: Cost of Care
Nursing
Psychologic Issues
Social Worker Issues: Quality of Life and Activities of Daily Living.