Colorectal cancer : risk, diagnosis and treatments / Julianne E. Jenkins, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jenkins, Julianne E.

Series:

Cancer etiology, diagnosis and treatments.

Cancer etiology, diagnosis and treatments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colon (Anatomy)--Cancer.

Colon (Anatomy).

Rectum--Cancer.

Rectum.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the world's third most common cancer. The symptoms and syndromes most commonly observed in CRC patients are pain, nausea/vomiting, weight loss, fatigue, constipation/diarrhea, gastrointestinal bleeding, bowel obstruction and confusion. Both locally advanced tumors and its distant metastasis can lead to extreme discomfort. Palliative care in oncology focuses on prevention and relief of suffering to optimize quality of life. Also discussed in this book is the psychosocial studies of colorectal patients in China where this type of cancer has the sharpest increase in incidence and mortality.

Contents:

Distinct and common issues in the psychosocial adaptation to cancer across cultures / Wai-Kai Hou

Adjuvant chemotherapy for resected colorectal cancer / N.S. Brown, S.A. Mullamitha, J.W. Valle

Palliative care of colorectal cancer / Carlos Eduardo Paiva ... [et al.]

Gene variants and gene products encoded in the central part of the MHC are strongly associated with both the risk and the prognosis of colorectal cancer / Judit Kocsis ... [et al.]

The role of cytoreduction as a multidisciplinary treatment modality for metastatic colorectal cancer / Koji Tanaka, Yasuhiro Inoue, Masato Kusunoki

Prognostic factors of survival in stage IIB-III and IV colorectal cancer / Nicolaos Diamantis ... [et al.]

Serum CSE1L and CEA for prognosis of metastatic colorectal cancer / Ming-Chung Jiang

Radiofrequency ablation as a novel therapy for pulmonary metastasis from colorectal cancer / Takao Hiraki ... [et al.]

Hepatectomy for liver metastases from colorectal carcinoma : comparison to liver metastases from gastric carcinoma / Zenichi Morise, Atsushi Sugioka.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61761-427-0

OCLC:

780443082