Each year, tens of millions of people are respectively. The following data indicate diagnosed worldwide with cancer, and the burden (seriousness) of gastrointestinal more than half of these patients eventu- cancer, liver cancer, and colorectal cancers ally die from this disease. The severity of globally and in the United States. (Table 1) the burden of cancer becomes really clear Surgical and molecular therapies and pr- by knowing that there were ? 10, 862, 496 nostic markers for gastrointestinal stromal new cancer cases (excluding skin cancer) tumors are discussed in this volume. Role in the world in 2002, and the number of of anticancer drugs and monoclonal an- deaths caused by this disease in the same bodies specific for these tumors are also year was ? 6,723,887 (GLOBOCAN). discussed. Imaging modality assessing the The number of deaths due to cancer in the effect of anticancer imatinib on these tumors United States was estimated to be 559, 650 is included. Diagnostic and prognostic (Am. Cancer Soc. ). Cancer is caused by markers of clinical outcomes using che- both external factors (tobacco, chemicals, therapy and hormone replacement therapy radiation, and infectious organisms) and for gastric adenocarcinoma are detailed. internal factors (inherited mutations, hor- Also, are discussed immunohistochem- mones, immune conditions, and mutations try of esophageal cancer progression, and that occur from metabolism). diagnostic and therapeutic methodologies All cancer types caused by cigarette for biliary tumors.
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Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN-13
9781402088995
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89654926
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Author
M. A. Hayat
Publication Name
Methods of Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy and Prognosis: Gastrointestinal Cancer
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Nursing, Surgery
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
247 Pages
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Item Height
260mm
Item Width
193mm
Volume
3
Item Weight
817g
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Series Title
Methods of Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy and Prognosis