Surgical Emergencies in the Cancer Patient
This text provides a comprehensive textbook summarizing the presentation, workup, and surgical solutions for common emergencies in the cancer patient. The use of medications (antibiotics, hormones, and biologic therapies) and interventional radi
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Surgical Emergencies in the Cancer Patient
Yuman Fong Rondi Marie Kauffmann Emily Marcinkowski Gagandeep Singh Hans F. Schoellhammer Editors
Surgical Emergencies in the Cancer Patient
Editors Yuman Fong Department of Surgery City of Hope Medical Center Duarte, CA, USA Emily Marcinkowski Department of Surgery University of Kentucky Lexington, KY, USA
Rondi Marie Kauffmann Department of Surgery Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN, USA Gagandeep Singh Surgical Oncology Hepatobiliary Surgery City of Hope Medical Center Duarte, CA, USA
Hans F. Schoellhammer Department of Surgery City of Hope Medical Center Duarte, CA, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-44023-1 ISBN 978-3-319-44025-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-44025-5
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Foreword
Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose Proverb: JBA Karr 1849
Three decades have passed since I edited the textbook “Surgical Emergencies in the Cancer Patient” [1]. This was one of two companion texts, where my colleagues and my mentors shared their knowledge and experience in treating cancer patients by publishing on Medical as well as Surgical Emergencies in the Cancer Patient. In the Preface to the current book also entitled “Surgical Emergencies in the Cancer Patient,” the editors acknowledge the tremendous changes that have occurred in the practice of Surgical Oncology since then. This book presents multidisciplinary treatment algorithms that embrace virtually every aspect of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics today. Treatment of the critically ill cancer patients now has far greater treatment options. The specialty-specific complications and emergencies are reviewed in
