Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy is a practical, disease-focused guide to the best current medical practice in cancer chemotherapy.

In an easy-to-follow outline format, Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy provides complete coveage of the principles of rational chemotherapy, the chemotherapeutic and biotherapeutic agents available, the treatment of specific cancers, and selected aspects of supportive care.

Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy highlights include:

• More than 20 site-specific chapters detailing what agents to use and when to use them in most cancers
• A section on supportive care offering guidance on how to deal with common complications of cancer and its treatment
• Seventeen new chemotherapeutic agents, with particular attention to molecular targeted agents
• Drugs and treatment regimens have been updated to include the latest information and best practices

Contents

Basic Principles and Considerations of Rational Chemotherapy

1. Biologic and Pharmacologic Basis of Cancer Chemotherapy and Biotherapy
2. Systemic Assessment of the Patient with Cancer and Long-Term Consequences of Treatment
3. Selection of Treatment for the Patient with Cancer

Chemotherapeutic and Biotherapeutic Agents and Their Use

4. Antinoeoplastic Drugs and Biologic Response Modifiers: Classification, Use, and Toxicity of Clinically Useful Agents
5. High-Dose Chemotherapy and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Hematologic Malignancies

Chemotherapy of Human Cancer

6. Carcinomas of the Head and Neck
7. Carcinomas of the Gastrointestinal Tract
8. Carcinomas of the Pancreas, Liver, Gallbladder, and Bile Ducts
9. Carcinoma of the Breast
10. Gynecologic Cancer

...and chapters12-26

Selected Aspects of Supportive Care of Patients with Cancer

Chapters 27-33

Appendices

Index

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