| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 196 pages) : illustrations |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Emerging cancer therapeutics, 2151-4194 ; v. 1, issue 1 |
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Emerging cancer therapeutics ; v. 1, issue 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Screening of colorectal cancer / M. Wasif Saif -- Assessment of KRAS and BRAF mutations in metastatic colorectal cancer : a step toward personalized medicine / Richard Kim, Brooke Phillips, and M. Wasif Saif -- Esophageal cancer -- Advances in surgical therapy for eastric cancer / Heather Yeo, Amir Shariff, and Charles Cha -- New development in combined-modality therapy / Bryan Chang -- New developments in radiation therapy planning / Bryan Chang -- Chemotherapy and targeted agents for stage IV cancer / M. Wasif Saif -- Gastric cancer / Sobha Kurian, Susan Alsamarai, and M. Wasif Saif -- Hepatocellular cancer / Yun Yen [and others] -- Colorectal cancer / Robert Diasio and M. Wasif Saif -- Pancreatic cancer / M. Wasif Saif and Jonathan Knisely -- Gastrointestinal stromal tumors / Bilal Ahmed and Tanios Bekaii-Saab -- Current management of anal cancer / David Grew, Bryan Chang, and M. Wasif Saif -- Small bowel adenocarcinoma / Jia Li and M. Wasif Saif -- Novel and targeted agents for gastrointestinal tumors / Mohammed Almubarak and Michael Newton. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Gastrointestinal Malignancies Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers are common diseases worldwide. About 400,000 patients are diagnosed with esophageal cancer worldwide each year and nearly 330,000 die for this disease. Roughly 870,000 patients are newly diagnosed each year with gastric cancer and over 600,000 die from the disease each year. And 940,000 new cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed annually and 490,000 patients die from this disease. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Digestive organs -- Cancer.
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Gastrointestinal Neoplasms |
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MEDICAL -- Oncology.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
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Digestive organs -- Cancer
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| Added Author |
Saif, M. Wasif.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gastrointestinal malignancies. New York : Demos Medical Pub., ©2010 9781933864907 (DLC) 2010002375 (OCoLC)502392728 |
| ISBN |
9781935281436 (electronic bk.) |
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1935281437 (electronic bk.) |
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1282959476 |
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9781282959477 |
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9786612959479 |
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6612959479 |
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9781933864907 |
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1933864907 |
| Standard No. |
9786612959479 |
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AU@ 000048811013 |
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AU@ 000051366451 |
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DEBBG BV043098588 |
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DEBSZ 421663472 |
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GBVCP 803560575 |
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