Basics of Oncology
This book provides an easily understood and general overview of the basic medical, scientific, and clinical aspects of cancer. Causes, pathology, clinical features, diagnostic investigations, treatments, and outcomes are all carefully explained and discus
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Basics of Oncology
Frederick O. Stephens Karl Reinhard Aigner
Basics of Oncology Second Edition
With Contribution by Kornelia Aigner Tim Allen-Mersh Gabriel Hortobagyi David Khayat Steven M. Picksley Paul Sugarbaker Tetsuo Taguchi John F. Thompson
Frederick O. Stephens, AM, MD, MS, FRCS (Ed), FACS, FRACS Emeritus Professor and former Head Department of Surgery The University of Sydney Mosman, NSW Australia
Karl Reinhard Aigner, MD Department of Surgical Oncology Medias Clinic Surgical Oncology Burghausen Germany
Former Head of Surgical Oncology The Royal Prince Alfred and Sydney Hospitals Mosman, NSW Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-23367-3 ISBN 978-3-319-23368-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23368-0
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Working in oncology is a very satisfying career. It is particularly satisfying to be able to help people with this most distressing and worrying health problem. Most patients are cured but for some cure is not a possibility with our present state of knowledge. All can be helped. In most cases our patients become our friends and some become very special friends. They honour us with their friendship and trust, and this makes our work feel more than worthwhile, indeed a special reward. We are also grateful for our teachers of the past and for our present colleagues without whose cooperation our work would be of limited value and progress would be difficult. Like all teachers, we are inspired by our students. We not only pass on knowledge to them, but we also learn from them. To have interested and enthusiastic students is a real stimulus and privilege. As is obvious from the authorship of this book, we have been privileged to make close and lasting friendships across national
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