Cancer surgery in the elderly
By: John D. Spiliotis and Konstantinos Tepetes, editors
Series: Cancer etiology, diagnosis and treatments; Aging issues, health and financial alternatives; Cancer etiology, diagnosis, and treatments; Aging issues, health and financial alternatives series
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781612095745
Subjects: Aging; Aged; Cancer; Epidemiology; Older people; Surgery; Neoplasms
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Demography of ageing and cancer; title: Nutrition, metabolism and wound healing; title: Preoperative evaluation of the elderly; title: Anesthetic consideration of the elderly cancer patient; title: Postoperative outcome; title: Optimizing surgical management of elderly cancer patients; title: Thyroid cancer; title: Esophageal cancer; title: Gastric cancer; title: Colon cancer; title: Rectal cancer; title: Gallbladder; title: Cholangiocarcinoma; title: Liver malignancies; title: Pancreatic cancer; title: Renal cancer in the elderly; title: Bladder cancer; title: Prostate cancer; title: Breast cancer; title: Retroperitoneal tumors; title: Peritoneal carcinomatosis.