International Manual of Oncology Practice iMOP - Principles of Oncol
Cancer is a very aggressive disease and currently it has been considered a challenge to oncologists and cancer patients worldwide. Nowadays, several therapeutic strategies had improved toward last decades. Surgery is many times still the best curative tre
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ational Manual of Oncology Practice iMOP - Principles of Oncology Second Edition
International Manual of Oncology Practice
Ramon Andrade De Mello • Giannis Mountzios Álvaro A. Tavares Editors
International Manual of Oncology Practice iMOP - Principles of Oncology Second Edition
Editors Ramon Andrade De Mello Division of Medical Oncology Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) & Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein São Paulo, Brazil
Giannis Mountzios Oncology Department Henry Dunant Hospital Center Athens, Greece
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine University of Algarve Faro, Portugal Álvaro A. Tavares Department of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine Universidade do Algarve Faro, Portugal
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Preface
Dear colleague, Nowadays, cancer is a serious disease which presents normally with a high mortality and important treatment sequels. The clinical approach of the cancer patients is really a challenge for the physicians, nurses, phycologists, and all subjects involved, namely, the patients and their family. Fortunately, the cancer sciences currently had been developing several strategies to overcome this issue: personalizing medicine, predictive and prognostic biomarkers, novel target therapies, and also innovative supportive therapies. Thus, the oncological treatment is a multimodal process which involves a comprehensive approach. More recently, the most important medical oncology societies are important key institutions to dissemina
