Breast Cancer Treatment By Focused Microwave Thermotherapy Provides A Comprehensive Overview Of The Technology And Application Of Microwave Thermography, A Cutting-Edge, Non-Invasive Therapy For Treating Breast Tumors. Chapter Topics Include Thermotherapy For Invasive Breast Cancer, Microwave Thermotherapy For Breast Cancer And Other Breast Lesions, Adaptive Focused Microwave Phased Array Thermotherapy System And Method For Treating The Intact Breast, Focused Microwave Radiation Theory And Analysis, Preclinical Results For Focused Microwave Phased Array Thermotherapy For Treating The Intact Breast, Phase I Safety Study For Focused Microwave Thermotherapy For Invasive Carcinomas In Patients Scheduled For Mastectomy, Phase II Thermal Dose Escalation Study For Early-State Breast Carcinomas In Patients Scheduled For Breast Conservation Surgery, Randomized Study Of Focused Microwave Thermotherapy For Early-Stage Breast Carcinomas In Patients Scheduled For Breast Conservation Surgery: Thermotherapy Prior To Surgery Compared To Surgery Alone, Randomized Study Of Preoperative Focused Microwave Thermotherapy In Combination With Preoperative Anthracycline-Based Chemotherapy For Patients With Large Breast Carcinomas: Preoperative Thermotherapy Compared To Preoperative Chemotherapy Alone To Breast Cancer, And Future Clinical Research Areas For Focused Microwave Breast Thermotherapy.

From electromagnetic field theory for tissue heating... to simulations of adaptive phased array thermotherapy for deep tumors of the torso... to coverage of arrays for tumors in the head, neck, breast, and chest wall, this timely resource offers you expert guidance in this emerging area.

Includes free CD-ROM!Completely revised and updated for 2010, the Physicians' Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual is an up-to-date guide with the latest information on standard therapy and recent advances in chemotherapy. Written by world-class experts in the clinical cancer therapeutics, this essential reference provides a complete, easy-to-use catalogue of over 100 drugs and commonly used drug regimens - both on-and off-label - or the treatment of all major cancers.

Completely revised and updated for 2011, the Physicians’ Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual is an up-to-date guide to the latest information on standard therapy and recent advances in the field. Written by world-class experts in clinical cancer therapeutics, this essential reference provides a complete, easy-to-use catalog of over 100 drugs and commonly used drug regimens—both on- and off-label—for the treatment of all the major cancers. Special features: • Revised to reflect rapid advances in the field, incorporating treatment strategie and new drugs like Cabazitaxel, Ofatumumab, Pazopanib, and Pralatrexate • A specific chapter focused on profiling antiemetic drug and antiemetic treatment regimens • Diagrams of drug structures and pathways for each agent • Offers a comprehensive discussion of clinical pharmacology, special considerations, indications, and dosages • Covers toxicity and drug–drug interactions • A section on chemotherapy regimens for all major cancers • Provides an overview of the basic principles of cancer drug therapy • Contains an easy to load and use CD-ROM version

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Here are the core procedures every general surgeon needs to master, in step-by-step detail with commentary from experts in the field. In two full-color volumes, Fischer’s Mastery of Surgery, Seventh Edition includes the essentials of diagnosis, anatomy, and pre-operative planning while maintaining a focus on clear, step-by-step depictions and descriptions of procedures. This thoroughly revised edition brings you up to date with evidence-based approaches for virtually any surgery you’ll be called upon to perform.

This book provides the most recent findings and knowledge in advanced diagnostics technology, covering a wide spectrum including brain activity analysis, breast and lung cancer detection, echocardiography, computer aided skeletal assessment to mitochondrial biology imaging at the cellular level. The authors explored magneto acoustic approaches and tissue elasticity imaging for the purpose of breast cancer detection. Perspectives in fetal echocardiography from an image processing angle are included. Diagnostic imaging in the field of mitochondrial diseases as well as the use of Computer-Aided System (CAD) are also discussed in the book. This book will be useful for students, lecturers or professional researchers in the field of biomedical sciences and image processing.

The 1st World Congress on Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Disease Research (GeNeDis 2014), will focus on recent advances in geriatrics and neurodegeneration, ranging from basic science to clinical and pharmaceutical developments and will provide an international forum for the latest scientific discoveries, medical practices and care initiatives. Advanced information technologies will be discussed concerning the various research, implementation and policy, as well as European and global issues in the funding of long-term care and medico-social policies regarding elderly people. GeNeDis 2014 takes place in Corfu Greece, 10-13 April 2014. This volume focuses on the sessions from the conference on computational biology and bioinformatics.

Includes free CD-ROM!Completely revised and updated for 2009, the Physicians�� Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual is an up-to-date guide to the latest information on standard therapy and recent advances in the field. Written by world-class experts in the clinical cancer therapeutics, this essential reference provides a complete, easy-to-use catalogue of over 100 drugs and commonly used drug regimens��both on-and off-label��for the treatment of all the major cancers.Special features:�� Features new drugs: Bendamustine, Ixabepilone, and Nilotinib�� Revised to reflect rapid advances in the field, incorporating new drug and treatment strategies�� diagrams of drug structures and pathways for each agent�� Offers a comprehensive discussion of clinical pharmacology, special considerations, indications, and dosages�� Covers toxicity and drug-drug interactions�� Includes a section on chemotherapy regimens for all the major cancers�� Provides a overview of the basic principles of cancer drug therapy�� Contains an easy to load and use CD-ROM versionPDA version of Physicians' Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual also available!