Colon cancer screening, surveillance, prevention, and treatment
Subtitle: Conventional and novel technologies
By: guest editor, Mitchell S. Capell
Contributors: Capell, Mitchell S
Series: Medical clinics of North America -- v. 89, no. 1
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Notes: "January 2005."

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: value: Preface -- Mitchell S. Cappell; value: Precancerous colonic lesions and colonic adenocarcinoma --; value: The pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and diagnosis of colon cancer and adenomatous polyps -- Mitchell S. Cappell; value: Screening of patients at average risk for colon cancer -- Jack S. Mandel; value: Surveillance of patients at high risk for colorectal cancer -- Sapna Syngal, Prathap Bandipalliam, and C. Ricahrd Boland; value: Prevention and therapy of colorectal cancer -- Jaye L. Viner; value: Novel technologies for the evaluation and treatment of gastroinstestinal malignancies --; value: The emerging role of virtual colonoscopy -- Zvi Lefkovitz, Robert Shapiro, Stephen Koch, and Mitchell S. Cappell; value: Endoscopic ultrasound in the diagnosis, staging, and managment of gastrointestinal and adjacent malignancies -- Radha Tamerisa, Atsushi Irisawa, and Manoop S. Bhutani; value: Novel endoscopic therapies for gastrointestinal malignancies: endoscopic mucosal resection and endoscopic ablation -- Gregory J. Monkewich and Gregory B. Haber; value: Laparoscopic surgery for the prevention, palliation, and cure of gastroinstestinal malignancies -- Jose E. Torres, George Tsoulfas, Kareem Hamdy, and Carol E.H. Scott-Conner; value: Index