UICC manual of clinical oncology / editors, Brian O'Sullivan [and six others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

International Union against Cancer, issuing body.

O'Sullivan, Brian, 1952- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Cancer.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (858 p.)

Edition:

Ninth edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Provides a concise, accessible and feasible reference to state of art multidisciplinary clinical oncology"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

""Manual of Clinical Oncology""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""About the Editors""; ""Contributors""; ""PART 1 General principles of cancer diagnosis and management""; ""1 Cancer epidemiology""; ""Introduction""; ""Study designs in cancer epidemiology""; ""Descriptive studies""; ""Analytical studies""; ""Global burden of cancer""; ""Risk factors for cancer""; ""Tobacco""; ""Alcohol""; ""Infections""; ""Obesity and physical activity""; ""Diet""; ""Reproductive and hormonal factors""; ""Occupation""; ""Pollution""; ""Radiation""; ""Genetic susceptibility""

""Other factors""""Prevention and cancer control""; ""Conclusion""; ""Recommended reading""; ""2 Level of evidence, guidelines and standards""; ""Introduction""; ""Clinical practice guidelines""; ""Clinical standards""; ""Levels of evidence""; ""Published study designs""; ""Clinical situations""; ""Creating a high-quality CPG""; ""Topic selection""; ""CPG development group""; ""Protocol development""; ""Guideline development""; ""Conclusions""; ""Recommended reading""; ""3 Prognosis and classification of cancer""; ""Introduction""; ""Axes of classification and taxonomy""

""The prognostic factor landscape""""Setting or �scenario� of the patient with cancer""; ""Purpose of prognostic factor analysis""; ""Guiding individual treatment (patient care)""; ""Guiding research""; ""Facilitating cancer control""; ""Methodological requirements""; ""Study population""; ""Challenges in prognostic factor studies""; ""Statistical techniques""; ""Taxonomy in prognostic factor discussion""; ""Defining disease type and extent""; ""Biomarker terminology""; ""Unions of prognostic factors and combination treatment algorithms""

""Framework for classification of prognostic factors""""Subject-based classification (tumour, host and environment)""; ""Clinical relevance�based classification""; ""Conclusion""; ""Recommended reading""; ""4 Principles of cancer staging""; ""History of the TNM system""; ""General rules of the TNM system""; ""Anatomical regions and sites""; ""TNM clinical classification""; ""Subdivisions of TNM""; ""Sentinel lymph node""; ""Isolated tumour cells""; ""Histopathological grading""; ""G: Histopathological grading""; ""Additional descriptors""; ""Operational descriptors""

""Residual tumour (R) classification""""Stage grouping""; ""Prognostic grouping""; ""Stage summary""; ""Related classifications""; ""Recommended reading""; ""5 Assessment of treatment outcome""; ""Outcome reporting: General overview""; ""Clinical endpoints in outcome reporting""; ""Measurement of effect size and competing risk""; ""Adjustment for the impact of multiple variables""; ""Outcome reporting: Specific issues""; ""Toxicity reporting""; ""Quality of life reporting""; ""Sample size estimation in clinical trials""; ""Interim analysis of clinical trials""

""Adjustment for missing data in outcome reporting""

Notes:

Preceeded by UICC manual of clinical oncology / editor, Raphael E. Pollock. 8th ed. 2004.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-119-01312-7

1-119-01314-3

1-119-01313-5

OCLC:

916953852