Colorectal cancer
Subtitle: evidence-based chemotherapy strategies
By: edited by Leonard B. Saltz.
Contributors: Saltz, Leonard B.
Series: Current clinical oncology; Current clinical oncology (Totowa, N.J.)
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781588297518; 9781588297518
Subjects: Colon (Anatomy) -- Cancer -- Chemotherapy.; Rectum -- Cancer -- Chemotherapy.; Evidence-based medicine.; Colorectal Neoplasms -- drug therapy.; Drug Therapy -- methods.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Molecular biology of colon cancer / William M. Grady; title: Chemoprevention of colorectal cancer / Yu-Ning Wong ...[et al.]; title: Colorectal cancer screening and surveillance / Arnold J. Markowitz; title: Cytotoxic chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer / M. Wasif Saif, Richard Kim, and Edward Chu; title: Integration of antiangiogenic strategies in colorectal cancer treatment / John M. Strother and Charles D. Blanke; title: The role of EGFR inhibition in colorectal cancer / Nabeel Shalan and Paulo M. Hoff; title: Second-line strategies in the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer / Anthony B. El-Khoueiry and Heinz-Josef Lenz; title: Adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer / Bert H. O'Neil ... [et al.]; title: Management of locally advanced rectal cancer / Yu Jo Chua and David Cunningham; title: Rationale for adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the resection of liver metastases / Axel Grothey and Steven A. Alberts; title: Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation in the management of patients with colorectal cancer / Karen Brown; title: Colorectal cancer imaging / Sean D. Curran and Laurence H. Schwartz; title: Nursing issues in colorectal cancer chemotherapy / Ellen Hollywood and Deborah Semple; title: Pain management in the colorectal cancer patient / Vivek Tim Malhotra; title: Novel agents and new paradigms for colorectal cancer / Chris Takimoto and Russell Kruzelock.