Metastatic Bone Disease An Integrated Approach to Patient Care
Providing an integrated approach to the diagnosis and management of patients with metastatic bone disease (MBD), this comprehensive text combines discussion of the pathobiology of the disease with the latest oncological and orthopedic treatment modalities
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Metastatic Bone Disease An Integrated Approach to Patient Care
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Metastatic Bone Disease
R. Lor Randall Editor
Metastatic Bone Disease An Integrated Approach to Patient Care
Editor R. Lor Randall, MD, FACS The L.B. & Olive S. Young Endowed Chair for Cancer Research Director, Sarcoma Services Medical Director, HCI Surgical Services Chief, SARC Lab & Fellowships Co-Leader, Sarcoma Disease Oriented Research Team Professor of Orthopedics, Primary Children’s Hospital & Huntsman Cancer Institute The University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT, USA
ISBN 978-1-4614-5661-2 ISBN 978-1-4614-5662-9 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-5662-9
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Preface/Acknowledgements: A Better Place
When I was approached about producing a medical textbook, my initial reaction was, “do we really need another orthopedic textbook (especially in hardcopy)?” Subsequently I reflected on how myopic our field has become. As orthopedic surgeons, our perspective on patient health has become so anatomically and technically focused. I hold the members of my chosen field in the highest regard. Yet, for example, when I talk to an arthroplasty surgeon about arthritis, invariably it is about the latest technologies and techniques and not about the underlying disease processes. For the practicing orthopod, our appreciation of the pathophysiology of the orthopedic disease we treat remains diminished as compared to our fund of knowledge regarding orthopedic tactics. This has always bothered me and is in part why I went into academics and why I gravitated to oncology. Certainly I find the surgeries gratifying but my goal has always been to better understand the pathologic processes of neoplasia, especially in
