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Cancer Treatment : Conventional and Innovative Approaches / edited by Letícia Rangel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rangel, Letícia, Editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cancer--Treatment.
- Cancer.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (630 pages) : illustrations some color
- Other Title:
- Cancer treatment
- Place of Publication:
- IntechOpen 2013
- Rijeka, Croatia : InTech, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Cancer Treatment: Conventional and Innovative Approaches is an attempt to integrate into a book volume the various aspects of cancer treatment, compiling comprehensive reviews written by an international team of experts in the field. The volume is presented in six sections: i) Section 1: Cancer treatment: Conventional and innovative pharmacological approaches; ii) Section 2: Combinatorial strategies to fight cancer: Surgery, radiotherapy, backytherapy, chemotherapy, and hyperthermia; iii) Section 3: The immunotherapy of cancer; iv) Section 4: Multidisciplinarity in cancer therapy: nutrition and beyond; v) Section 5: Supportive care for cancer patients; vi) Section 6: Perspectives in cancer biology and modeling. Ultimately, we hope this book can enlighten important issues involved in the management of cancer, summarizing the state-of-the-art knowledge regarding the disease control and treatment; thus, providing means to improve the overall care of patients that daily battle against this potentially lethal condition.
- Notes:
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Intech, viewed October 19, 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789535171409
- 9535171402
- 9789535110989
- 9535110985
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