Research Catalog

Title

Thoracic oncology / [edited by] Jack A. Roth, John C. Ruckdeschel, Thomas H. Weisenburger.

Publication

Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Roth, Jack A.
• Ruckdeschel, John C.
• Weisenburger, Thomas H.

Description

x, 613 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Subjects

• Chest > Cancer
• Thoracic Neoplasms

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. Cancer of the Lung. 1. Lung Cancer: An Overview / John C. Ruckdeschel. 2. Carcinogenesis, and Cellular and Molecular Biology of Lung Cancer / Marc S. Greenblatt, Roger R. Reddel and Curtis C. Harris. 3. Clinical Presentation of Lung Cancer / L. Austin Doyle and Joseph Aisner. 4. Epithelial Neoplasms of the Lung / Victor E. Gould and William H. Warren. 5. Fundamentals of Diagnostic Imaging / Robert A. Clark. 6. Staging of Lung Cancer / Jonathan C. Nesbitt and Darroch W. O. Moores. 7. Preoperative Assessment of Patients Undergoing Lung Resection for Cancer / Jorge A. Wernly and Tom R. DeMeester. 8. Surgery for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer / Robert J. Ginsburg, Melvyn Goldberg and Paul F. Waters. 9. Preoperative and Postoperative Therapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer / Henry Wagner, Jr. and Philip Bonomi. 10. Definitive Radiotherapy and Combined Modality Therapy for Inoperable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer / Thomas H. Weisenburger.
• 11. Management of Disseminated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer / Charles C. Williams, Jr. and John C. Ruckdeschel. 12. Clinical Presentation and Natural History of Small Cell Lung Cancer / Per Dombernowsky and Heine H. Hansen. 13. Treatment of Small Cell Lung Cancer / David H. Johnson and Donald R. Eisert. 14. Superior Sulcus Tumors / Frederick L. Grover and Ritsuko Komaki. 15. Superior Vena Cava Syndrome / Minesh P. Mehta and Timothy J. Kinsella. 16. Chemoprevention of Lung Cancer / Jin S. Lee, Scott M. Lippman and Waun K. Hong -- Pt. II. Cancer of the Esophagus. 17. Esophageal Cancer - Overview / Jack A. Roth. 18. Epidemiology and Genesis of Esophageal Cancer / William J. Blot. 19. The Pathobiology of Esophageal Cancer / Louis R. Begin. 20. Premalignant Lesions of the Esophagus / Meade C. Edmunds and Richard W. McCallum. 21. Cancer of the Esophagus: Clinical Presentation and Stricture Management / Carolyn E. Reed.
• 22. Diagnostic Imaging of Esophageal Cancer / Gerald D. Dodd and Marvin H. Chasen. 23. Diagnosis and Staging of Esophageal Carcinoma / Thomas W. Rice. 24. Surgery for Carcinoma of the Esophagus / Jack A. Roth and Joe B. Putnam, Jr. 25. Definitive Radiation Therapy and Combined Modality Therapy for Cancer of the Esophagus / Theodore L. Phillips and Bruce Minsky. 26. Chemotherapy and Combined Modality Therapy for Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagus and Gastroesophageal Junction / Jaffer A. Ajani, David P. Kelsen, Tyvin A. Rich and Jack A. Roth -- Pt. III. Malignancies of the Mediastinum. 27. General Principles and Surgical Considerations in the Management of Mediastinal Masses / Garrett L. Walsh. 28. Malignancies of the Thymus / Eli Glatstein and Barry S. Levinson. 29. Mediastinal Germ Cell Neoplasms / John D. Hainsworth and F. Anthony Greco.
• 30. Malignant Tumors Involving the Heart and Pericardium / Stephen A. Mills, Geoffrey M. Graeber and Mark C. Nelson -- Pt. IV. Malignancies of the Chest Wall and Pleura. 31. Overview of Malignancies of the Chest Wall and Pleura / Thomas H. Weisenburger. 32. Primary and Metastatic Chest Wall Tumors / Harvey I. Pass. 33. Multimodality Therapy of Malignant Mesothelioma / David J. Sugarbaker, Michael T. Jaklitsch, Alexander D. Soutter, Joseph Aisner and Karen Antman. 34. Pleural Effusions in Patients with Malignancy / Darroch W. O. Moores and John C. Ruckdeschel -- Pt. V. Pulmonary Metastases. 35. Resection of Pulmonary Metastases / Louis A. Lanza and Joe B. Putnam, Jr.

ISBN

0721647693

LCCN

94026869

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries