Gastrointestinal Cancers : A Companion to Sleisenger and Fordtran's GI and Liver Disease

GI Cancer



Editor Anil K Rustgi



Part One: Fundamentals of Gastrointestinal Oncology



Section 1: Principles of Oncogenesis



The Mammalian Cell Cycle

2. Mark E Ewen



Oncogenes and Tumor Supressor Genes

4. Chris Trzepacz

Joanna Groden


Peptide Growth Factors

6. John A Barnard III



Signal Transduction Pathways during Oncogenesis

8. M Bishr Omary

Angela L Tyner


Tumor Invasion and Metastasis
Antoni Castells

Anil K Rustgi


Section 2: Pathology of GI Cancers



The Immune System

12. Mark Ryan

Richard Blumberg


Gastrointestinal Cancer and Liver Development

14. Debra Silberg

Gary Wu


Principles of Pathology

16. James M Crawford



Principles of Pathology

18. James M Crawford





Section 3: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches



Principles of Radiology

20. Alec J Megibow



Principles of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy
C. John Baillie



Principles of Laparoscopy and Thoracoscopy
Yasir Suliman

Noel Williams


Principles of Biopsy

26. Carolyn C Compton



Principles of Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy

28. Robert J Myerson



Section 4: Principles of Patient Care



Principles of Patient Based Cancer Research

30. James Lewis

Brian Strom


Screening and surveillance of GI Cancers

32. Dawn Provenzale



Prevention of GI Cancers

34. Ernest Hawk

C Sigman

Gary Kelloff




Part 2: Organ Based Oncology


Section 1: Esophageal Carcinoma


Clinical Aspects of Esophageal Carcinoma

36. Collen M Schmitt

Scott R Brazer


Biology of Esophageal Carcinoma

38. Anil K Rustgi



Pathology of Esophageal Carcinoma

40. Robert D Odze

Donald Antonioli


Surgical Treatment of Esophageal Carcinoma

42. Blair Marshall

Larry Kaiser


Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy of Esophageal Carcinoma

44. Tyvin Rich



Section 2: Gastric Carcinoma

45. Clinical Aspects if Gastric Carcinoma
46. Robert C Kurtz

47. Biology of Gastric Carcinoma
48. James Farrell
Timothy C Wang

49. Pathology of Gastric Carcinoma
50. Gregory Y Lauwers
Michio Schimizu

51. Surgery for Gastric Cancer
52. Robert Osteen

53. Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy for Gastric Carcinoma
54. Bruce D Minsky

Section 3: Small Intestinal Carcinoma

55. Small Intestinal Neoplasms
56. Nadir Arber
B I Weistein

Section 4: Colorectal Carcinoma

57. Clinincal Aspects of Inherited Colon Cancer
58. Randall Burt

59. Sporadic Colon Cancer
60. Tousif Pasha
David Ahlquist

61. Biology and Genetics of Colorectal Cancer
62. John Carethers

63. Chemoprevention of Colorectal Cancer
64. Alistair Watson
Ernest Hawk
Raymond DuBois

65. Pathology of Colorectal Carcinoma
66. Cecilia Fonoglio-Preiser
Amy Noffsinger

67. Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy of Colorectal Carcinoma
68. Jeffrey W Clark
Christopher Willet

69. Surgery for Colorectal Carcinoma
70. C Owens
R Bleday

Section 5: Anal Zone Carcinoma

71. Carcinoma of the Anal Canal
72. Ashish Chawla
Christopher Willet

Section 6: Pancreatic Carcinoma

73. Clinical Aspects of Pancreatic and Ampullary Cancer
74. Wolfgang Schmiegel

75. Biology of Pancreatic Cancer
76. Murray Korc

77. Pathology of Pancreatic Cancer
78. Daniel S Longnecker

79. Surgical Therapy of Pancreatic Carcinoma
80. John F Gibbs
Judy Smith

81. Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy of Pancreatic Carcinoma
82. Richard M Goldberg
Steven Alberts
James Martenson



Section 7: Hepatic and Extrahepatic Carcinoma



Clinical Aspects of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

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