Minimally Invasive Cancer Management
As minimal access approaches to cancer diagnosis, staging, and therapy become more widely used, it is vital for general surgeons, along with laparoscopists, surgical oncologists and medical oncologists, to stay up to date. The editors, a team consisting o
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F.L. Greene, B.T. Heniford (Eds.)
Minimally Invasive Cancer Management Second Edition
With 199 Figures and 37 Tables
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ISBN 978-1-4419-1237-4 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-1238-1 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1238-1 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010929053
Frederick L. Greene
Chairman Department of Surgery Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte NC 28203 USA [email protected] B. Todd Heniford
Chief Division of GI and Minimal Access Surgery Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte NC 28203 USA [email protected]
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Foreword to the Second Edition
Dr. Greene and his colleagues present the second edition of their text, Minimal Access Cancer Management. Minimal access surgery is an area where the editors have taken a genuine leadership role. It is now firmly established that minimal access surgery has a major role to play in the management of the patient with malignancy. The primary benefits to diagnosis and staging are now accepted and recognized. It is extremely important to realize that minimal invasive surgery, and for that matter other forms of ablation, are techniques that utilizes technical advances brought from other areas of optics, instrumentation, and usable alternative energy sources. In the first edition the authors’ goal was to provide “a repository for cognitive and technical information.” This has now been achieved. In the management of the cancer patient, one might hope we are moving further from technical and discipline-based approaches to disease-based processes. The inevitability of this is reinforced by the intelligent patient and physician having already worked it out! One might argue that medical care has progressively moved to disease management rather than discipline-based management as is seen in cardiovascular
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