Prognostic factors in cancer
By: edited by M.K. Gospodarowicz ... [et al.].
Contributors: Gospodarowicz, M. K.; International Union against Cancer.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Wiley-Liss
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 809
Subjects: Neoplasms -- diagnosis; Prognosis; Neoplasm Staging; Survival Rate
Notes: Errata tipped in.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. The importance of prognosis in cancer medicine; title: Ch. 2. Prognostic factors: principles and application; title: Ch. 3. Statistical methods for the analysis of prognostic factor studies; title: Ch. 4. Evaluating prognostic factor studies; title: Ch. 5. Artificial neural networks for physicians: a technology introduction; title: Ch. 6. Tumor, host, and environment-related prognostic factors; title: Ch. 7. Prognostic factors in cancer patient care; title: Ch. 8. Psychosocial factors in prognosis; title: Ch. 9. The role of prognostic factors in cancer research; title: Ch. 10. Measuring the accuracy of prognostic judgments; title: Ch. 11. Oral cavity, pharynx, and larynx cancer; title: Ch. 12. Paransal sinus cancer; title: Ch. 13. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; title: Ch. 14. Salivary gland cancers; title: Ch. 15. Thyroid cancer; title: Ch. 16. Cancer of the esophagus; title: Ch. 17. Gastric cancer; title: Ch. 18. Colorectal cancer; title: Ch. 19. Anal cancer; title: Ch. 20. Hepatocellular carcinoma; title: Ch. 21. Extrahepatic biliary tract and the ampulla of vater cancers; title: Ch. 22. Cancer of the pancreas; title: Ch. 23. Lung cancer; title: Ch. 24. Malignant pleural mesothelioma; title: Ch. 25. Malignant thymoma; title: Ch. 26. Osteosarcoma; title: Ch. 27. Soft tissue sarcoma; title: Ch. 28. Skin cancer; title: Ch. 29. Cutaneous malignant melanoma; title: Ch. 30. Breast cancer; title: Ch. 31. Vulvar cancer; title: Ch. 32. Uterine cervix cancer; title: Ch. 33. Endometrial cancer; title: Ch. 34. Cancer of the ovary and fallopian tube; title: Ch. 35. Gestational trophoblastic disease; title: Ch. 36. Squamous-cell carcinoma of the penis; title: Ch. 37. Prostate cancer; title: Ch. 38. Germ-cell testis tumors; title: Ch. 39. Renal-cell carcinoma; title: Ch. 40. Bladder cancer; title: Ch. 41. Intraocular tumors; title: Ch. 42. Hodgkin's Disease; title: Ch. 43. Non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma; title: Ch. 44. Leukemia; title: Ch. 45. Giomas; title: Ch. 46. Pediatric cancers.