Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine 8/e (CANCER MEDICINE (HOLLAND))

Product Description
The consummate reference source for medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, internists, surgical oncologists, and
others who treat cancer patients, Cancer Medicine 8 covers the ever-widening sphere of current cancer knowledge and
clinical practice. In this new 8th edition an outstanding editorial team from world-renowned medical centers continues
to hone the leading edge forged in previous editions, with timely information on biology, immunology, etiology,
epidemiology, prevention, screening, pathology, imaging, and therapy. The book is a testament to the editorial panel s
creed--that innovative, comprehensive, multidisciplinary treatment of cancer patients must be grounded in a fundamental
understanding of cancer biology. Cancer Medicine 8 does a superb job of bringing scientific principles into clinical
practice. This text is the ultimate resource of new information providing the basis for better informed cancer therapy
choices. Cancer Medicine 8 features hundreds of 4-color illustrations, photographs, tables, graphs and algorithms that
make this text an invaluable clinical tool in recognizing characteristic appearances of both patient and tissue. The
137 tightly focused chapters are organized into 5 sections: CARDINAL MANIFESTATIONS OF CANCER; SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS
OF CANCER; PRINCIPLES OF CANCER DIAGNOSIS; PRINCIPLES OF THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES; PRINCIPLES OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY
MANAGEMENT
About the Author
Waun Ki Hong, MD Head and Professor, Division of Cancer Medicine American Cancer Society Professor Samsung
Distinguished University Chair in Cancer Medicine The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas
Donald W. Kufe, MD Professor of Medicine Dana Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School Robert C. Bast Jr, MD Vice
President for Translation Research MD Anderson Cancer Center William Hait, MD, PhD Senior VP and Worldwide Head Ortho
Biotech Oncology Research & Development (ORD), Johnson & Johnson Pharmceutical Research & Development Raphael E.
Pollock, MD, PhD Head of the Division of Surgery, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgical Oncology,
Senator A. M. Aiken, Jr. Distinguished Chair M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Ralph R. Weichselbaum, MD Daniel K. Ludwig
Professor Chair Dept of Radiology and Cellular Oncology University of Chicago Hospital Director Chicago Tumor Institute
James F. Holland, MD, ScD (hc) Director Emeritus, Derald H. Ruttenberg Cancer Center Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Emil Frei, III, MD Physician in Chief Emeritus Dana Farber Cancer Institute