General Methods and Overviews, Lung Carcinoma and Prostate Carcinoma
This is the first book that discusses the subjects of diagnosis, therapy, therapy assessment, and prognosis of lung and prostate cancer in one single volume. Cancer killed 6.7 million people around the world in 2002, and this figure is expected to rise to
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General Methods and Overviews, Lung Carcinoma and Prostate Carcinoma
Methods of Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis Volume 2
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Methods of Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis Volume 2
General Methods and Overviews, Lung Carcinoma and Prostate Carcinoma Edited by
M.A. Hayat Department of Biological Sciences, Kean University, Union, NJ, USA
Editor M.A. Hayat Department of Biological Sciences Kean University Union, NJ USA
ISBN 978-1-4020-8441-6
e-ISBN 978-1-4020-8442-3
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Authors and Co-Authors of Volume 2
Naglaa F. Abbas Medical Division, National Research Center, Al-Tahrir Street, Dokki Giza, Egypt Imran Ahmad Saskatoon Cancer Center, University of Saskatchewan, 20 Campus Drive, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 4H4 E-mail: [email protected] Shahid Ahmed Saskatoon Cancer Center, University of Saskatchewan, 20 Campus Drive, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 4H4 Annette Altmann Clinical Cooperation Unit Nuclear Medicine, German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, FRG-69120 Heidelberg, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Samuel G. Armato III Department of Radiology- MC 2026, The University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Ave., Chicago, IL 60637 E-mail: [email protected]
Florence Arnold Saskatoon Cancer Center, University of Saskatchewan, 20 Campus Drive, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 4H4 Armando Bartolazzi Department of Oncology-Pathology, Cellular and Molecular Pathology, Cancer Center Karolinska, CCK R8:04 Karolinska Hospital, 17176 Stockholm, Sweden E-mail: [email protected] Susana Benlloch Research Unit, Alicante University General Hospital, Avda Pintor Baeza 12, Alicante 03010, Spain E-mail: [email protected] Heinrich Bulzebruck IT-Abteilung der Thoraxklinik am Universitatsklinikum, Heidelburg, Amalienstrasse 5, D-69126 Heidelberg, Germany Loren E. Clarke Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center-M.C. H179, P. O. Box 850, 500 University Drive, Hershey, PA 17033
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Philip Clewer Medical Physics and Bioengineering, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Southampton, SO16 6YD, United Kingdom E-mail:
