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Expert, hands-on guidance for managing and treating all major cancers-from the world-renowned physicians at The MD Anderson Cancer Center

Comprehensive and authoritative, The MD Anderson Manual of Medical Oncology delivers everything you need to accurately diagnose and effectively treat a wide range cancers-including leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, lung and breast cancer, genitourinary carcinoma, melanoma, and sarcoma.

This unmatched resource emphasizes practical, actionable steps to cancer treatment, providing "to the point" recommendations, chapter summary boxes, tables, charts, expert opinion and patient education boxes, practice tips, cases, and prescriptive advice. And the new format of this updated edition quickly guides you to the topic, the affiliated relevant chapter, new findings affecting clinical practice, and reference/evidence.

NEW format helps you get to the clinical bottom line quicker than ever
NEW Q&A, cases, patient education information, expert advice, and more
Expanded coverage of immunotherapy treatment-written by the 2018 Nobel Prize-winner for immunology
Online content is continually updated
Includes a comparative table with guidelines from the European Society of Medical Oncology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology

Contents:

Part I: Leukemia

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Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemiaand Associated Disorders

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

Myelodysplastic Syndromes:The MD Anderson Approach to Therapy

Part II: Lymphoma and Myeloma

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The Indolent Lymphomas

Aggressive and HighlyAggressive B Cell Lymphomas

T-cell Lymphomas

Hodgkin Lymphoma

Part III. Stem CellTransplantation

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Alternative Donor Transplants:Cord Blood Transplant

Alternative DonorTransplants-Haploidentical Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation

Part IV: Lung Cancer

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Small Cell Carcinoma of theLung

Non-small Cell Lung Cancer(sent in 3/6)

Part V: Head and Neck Cancer

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Head and Neck Cancer

Part VI: GastrointestinalCarcinomas

Section Editor: BobWolff

Gastric and Esophageal Cancer

Pancreatic Cancer

Hepatobiliary Malignancies

Small Bowel Cancer andAppendicle Tumors

Colorectal Cancer

Anal Cancer

Part VII: Breast Cancer

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Metastatic Breast Cancer

Special Situations in BreastCancer

Part VIII: GynecologicMalignancies

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Ovarian Cancer

Tumors of the Uterine Corpus

Tumorsof the Uterine Cervix

Gestational Trophoblastic Tumors

Part IX: GenitourinaryCarcinoma

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Renal Cell Carcinoma

Bladder Cancer

Prostate Cancer

Penile Cancer

Germ Cell Tumors

Part X. Neurologic Tumors

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TBD

Part XI. MalignantMelanoma and Sarcomas

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Malignant Melanoma

Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcomas

Part XII. Other Tumors

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43. Endocrine Malignancies

The AIDS-relatedCancers

Part XIII - Novel and OtherCancer Topics of Interest

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Carcinoma of Unknown Primary

Pediatric Cancers

Molecular Biomarkers andCancer

Immuno-Oncology (Jim Allison)

Targeted Therapies in Cancer

Applied Biostatistics

Part XIV. Supportive Care

Section Editor: DimitriosKontoyiannis

Fungal and Viral Infections inthe Cancer Patient

Endocrine and MetabolicComplications of Cancer Therapy

Oncologic Emergencies

Onco-Cardiology

Pulmonary Complications of CancerTherapy

Part XV Palliative Careand Symptom Management

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Palliative and SupportiveCare

Pain Management and SymptomControl

Rehabilitation

Long-term Survivorship inAdult and Pediatric Cancer