Download or read book Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate written by Andrew W. Bruce and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carcinoma of the prostate increasingly dominates the attention of urologists for both scientific and clinical reasons. The search for an explanation and the prediction of the variable behaviour of the malignant prostatic cell continues unabated. The search for more precise tumour staging and more effective treatment is equally vigorous. Editors Andrew Bruce and John Trachtenberg have assembled acknowledged leaders in prostate cancer to present those areas of direct interest to the clinician. There are a number of other topics that might have been considered but most of these, such as experimental tumour models or biochemical factors affecting cell growth, still lack immediate application for the clinician. Carcinoma of the prostate continues to have its highest incidence in the western world, and the difference in comparison with the incidence in the Far East appears to be real and not masked by diagnostic or other factors. A number of other epidemiological aspects need careful analysis: Is the incidence increasing? Is the survival improving? Is the prognosis worse in the younger patient? Epidemiological data are easily misused and misinterpreted so that a precise analysis of the known facts makes an important opening chapter to this book.
Download or read book Rectal Cancer Treatment written by M.W. Büchler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rectal cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers world-wide. It is also a paradigm for multimodal management, as the combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy is often necessary to achieve the optimal outcome. Recently, international experts met in Heidelberg, Germany to discuss the latest developments in the management of rectal cancer, including the anatomic and pathologic basis, staging tools, surgical concepts including fast-track surgery and laparoscopic resection, functional outcome after surgery and the role of radio- and chemotherapy. This monograph summarizes this meeting and gives an extensive overview of the current concepts in management of rectal cancer.
Download or read book Comparative Oncology written by Alecsandru Ioan Baba and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving Diagnosis in Health Care written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process is a complex, collaborative activity that involves clinical reasoning and information gathering to determine a patient's health problem. According to Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, diagnostic errors-inaccurate or delayed diagnoses-persist throughout all settings of care and continue to harm an unacceptable number of patients. It is likely that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating consequences. Diagnostic errors may cause harm to patients by preventing or delaying appropriate treatment, providing unnecessary or harmful treatment, or resulting in psychological or financial repercussions. The committee concluded that improving the diagnostic process is not only possible, but also represents a moral, professional, and public health imperative. Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, a continuation of the landmark Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), finds that diagnosis-and, in particular, the occurrence of diagnostic errorsâ€"has been largely unappreciated in efforts to improve the quality and safety of health care. Without a dedicated focus on improving diagnosis, diagnostic errors will likely worsen as the delivery of health care and the diagnostic process continue to increase in complexity. Just as the diagnostic process is a collaborative activity, improving diagnosis will require collaboration and a widespread commitment to change among health care professionals, health care organizations, patients and their families, researchers, and policy makers. The recommendations of Improving Diagnosis in Health Care contribute to the growing momentum for change in this crucial area of health care quality and safety.
Download or read book Observations on the Nature and Specific Mode of Treatment of Constitutional Principles of Fever Consumption Etc written by John Houston (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urological Pathology written by Mahul B. Amin and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 2443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge in the field of urologic pathology is growing at an explosive pace. Today’s pathologists, specialists, and residents require a comprehensive and authoritative text that examines the full range of urological diseases and their diagnosis. Written by recognized leaders and educators in the field, the text provides readers with a detailed understanding of all diagnostic aspects of urological disease. Inside this unique resource, readers will explore a broad spectrum of practical information—including etiology, diagnostic criteria, molecular markers, differential diagnosis, ancillary tests, and clinical management. This is sure to be the new definitive text for urological pathology!
Download or read book The Unequal Burden of Cancer written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-06-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know more about cancer prevention, detection, and treatment than ever beforeâ€"yet not all segments of the U.S. population have benefited to the fullest extent possible from these advances. Some ethnic minorities experience more cancer than the majority population, and poor peopleâ€"no matter what their ethnicityâ€"often lack access to adequate cancer care. This book provides an authoritative view of cancer as it is experienced by ethnic minorities and the medically underserved. It offers conclusions and recommendations in these areas: Defining and understanding special populations, and improving the collection of cancer-related data. Setting appropriate priorities for and increasing the effectiveness of specific National Institutes of Health (NIH) research programs, to ensure that special populations are represented in clinical trials. Disseminating research results to health professionals serving these populations, with sensitivity to the issues of cancer survivorship. The book provides background data on the nation's struggle against cancer, activities and expenditures of the NIH, and other relevant topics.
Download or read book The Proteal treatment of cancer and allied conditions written by Henry Smith Williams and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Concept and New Way of Treatment of Cancer written by Xu Ze Xu Jie Bin Wu and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the scientific summary of the authors treatment experience on oncology surgery during his 50 years of oncology surgical practice and of the author's research achievement during his 20 years of animal cancer experimentation and clinical research. The book is divided into 38 chapters in which the author demonstrates innovative concepts of cancer therapy including a new cognition of cancer etiology and pathogenesis, new concepts and methods of cancer therapy and anti-cancer metastasis and recurrence. The author also demonstrates experimental information and analysis of clinically testified results and new ways of conquering the cancers from many aspects. The cancer existing in the human body has three forms: the two points and a line, and eight steps and three stages of carcinoma metastasis, the third field of anti-carcinoma-metastasis and recurrence treatment, three Steps of therapy of carcinoma metastasis, etc. It includes both the review and recall of traditional surgical and chemotherapy and radioactive therapy and the summary and analysis of the experimental information and clinical testifying results for XZ-C immunologic regulation and control anti-carcinoma traditional Chineses medicine which the author purified from the Chinese herbs. In addition, in this book the author added the scientific methods of the cancer therapy and the strategies and suggests for the overcoming the cancer development. Some part contents of this book have generated great attention in the international field of oncology. In this book the contents are creative and the ideas are new and the theories are related to the practices. There are extremely high scientific value and clinical application, which is a value reference for clinical oncologist, oncology specialists and oncology scientific researcher and the family and caregivers of the cancer patients.
Download or read book On Innovation of Treatment of Cancer written by BinWu and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete collection book which describes how we searched our anticancer immune regulation medications which all of our animal and clinical experiments were done by skilled surgeons and were very challenging and hard work. Chinese medicine has 5000 years history which we found that many of Chinese anticancer medications are to improve our immune system function. Dr. Xu Ze's innovation of research designing and methods to test our medications is the first and advanced in the world oncology fields. Conquer cancer, go? Where are our roads to go? Dr. Xu Ze thinks the roads are in scientific research, on cancer prevention and treatment of scientific research, the roads in research under scientific guidance of the scientific concept of development. Science is an endless frontier, our scientific work has followed the scientific concept of development, based on the known medical, future-oriented medicine, new disciplines, interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, based on the known material science, to explore the future of science and unknown knowledge. Look forward, through the static mind, a long-term hard work and practice the scientific concept of development, in scientific, difficult journey ,a scientific step by step and step, to the forefront of science, for innovative and forward, to overcome cancer research hall brick by Tim watts. Z-C1 + Z-C4 immune regulation anti-cancer medications. An overall improvement in the quality of life of patients with advanced cancer Protect Thymus and increase immune function Nurse bone morrow and blood and increase immune function Enhance physical fitness, reduce pain, improve physical strength Enhance therapeutic effect and reduce the side effects of chemotherapy.
Download or read book Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy written by Simon S. Lo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) has emerged as an important innovative treatment for various primary and metastatic cancers. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the physical/technological, biological, and clinical aspects of SBRT. It will serve as a detailed resource for this rapidly developing treatment modality. The organ sites covered include lung, liver, spine, pancreas, prostate, adrenal, head and neck, and female reproductive tract. Retrospective studies and prospective clinical trials on SBRT for various organ sites from around the world are examined, and toxicities and normal tissue constraints are discussed. This book features unique insights from world-renowned experts in SBRT from North America, Asia, and Europe. It will be necessary reading for radiation oncologists, radiation oncology residents and fellows, medical physicists, medical physics residents, medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, and cancer scientists.
Download or read book Experiments And Observations On Different Kinds Of Air written by Joseph Priestley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Priestley wrote a scientific book titled "Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air," which was published in the late 1700s. Priestley's revolutionary studies on gases, especially oxygen and its function in respiration and combustion, are chronicled in this book. Priestley's experiments established the basis for our knowledge of gases and their characteristics. Among his greatest achievements was the discovery of oxygen, which he referred to as "dephlogisticated air." He also looked into the characteristics of other gases, such as nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide. Priestley's painstaking observations and experiments are described in detail in the book, offering insightful information on the properties of gases and how they interact. His research questioned accepted notions at the time and advanced contemporary chemistry. All things considered, Priestley's "Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air" is an important historical work that advanced our comprehension of the basic ideas of chemistry.
Download or read book Observations on the Origin and Treatment of Internal and External Diseases and Management of Children written by Gustavus Hume and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Medicare written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health care for the elderly American is among our nation's more pressing social issues. Our society wishes to ensure quality health care for all older people, but there is growing concern about our ability to maintain and improve quality in the face of efforts to contain health care costs. Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance answers the U.S. Congress' call for the Institute of Medicine to design a strategic plan for assessing and assuring the quality of medical care for the elderly. This book presents a proposed strategic plan for improving quality assurance in the Medicare program, along with steps and timetables for implementing the plan by the year 2000 and the 10 recommendations for action by Congress. The book explores quality of careâ€"how it is defined, measured, and improvedâ€"and reviews different types of quality problems. Major issues that affect approaches to assessing and assuring quality are examined. Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance will be immediately useful to a wide audience, including policymakers, health administrators, individual providers, specialists in issues of the older American, researchers, educators, and students.
Download or read book The New Progress in Cancer Treatment written by Xu Ze and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the half century after the Second World War, oncology has developed greatly both in the world and in China. There are three traditional major treatments: surgery, which has been used to treat tumors for more than a hundred years; radiotherapy, which has been used for ninety years; and chemotherapy, which has been used for nearly seventy years. In the 1980s, there was the rise of biological therapy and immunotherapy. The effects of oncological therapy have made a lot of progress. Many tumors have achieved good results, but there are still many solid tumors whose efficacy are still very poor. In 1985, the author followed up more than three thousand patients who had undergone the general surgical operation and thorax surgical operation. The results showed that most patients relapsed and metastasized within two to three years after surgery. Some patients even relapsed in a few months. This made me deeply realize that surgery is successful and standardized, but the long-term effect is not satisfied or that the long-term treatment is a failure.
Download or read book New Concept and New Way of Treatment of Cancer Metastais written by Xu Ze and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immunotherapy has the potential to literally end cancer as we know it, noted Vice President Joe Biden, who came to the Johns Hopkins in late April in 2016. We are excited about cancer immunotherapy is the excellent way to help the cancer patients to live longer and to have better quality of life because Dr. Xu Ze in China has been working on oncology immunotherapy more than decades. How did Dr. Xu Ze figure out all of these new concepts and new ideas of cancer treatment, especially immunotherapy? All of these came from his clinical practice and observation and from his animal experiments which showed that the host immune function decreased such as thymus (the place of T cells getting mature) atrophy while the cancer occurred etc. He did plenty of animal and clinical research of searching new ways and new medications for the oncology patients. We discussed to publish this book which is full of new concepts and new ways of cancer immunotherapy and shows that Xu Zes research group dedicates to cancer immunotherapy. The main contents of this book were written by Dr. Xu Ze in China many years ago after he did more than decades of research and oncology clinical practices. This book is full of the innovating ways and concepts how to stop the cancer metastases, especially the oncology immunotherapy and describes the metastases mechanism in details. In Chapter 11 and 21 the cancer cell immunotherapy was discussed in great detail. As we know, the cancer is also called malignancy tumor which are made up of cells that grow out of control. Cells in these tumours can inade nearby tissues and spread to other parts of the body which damages our normal function. This is known as metastasis or secondary cancer. If we stop the metastases, we can control cancer. This book described the cancer characteristics in details such as : development of tumor molecular biology; many factors which influence the occurrence and metastases of cancer in the body; Dr. Xu Zes immunotherapy methods and medications; each metastases step in details; the treatment of cancer thrombus; the review and prospect of oncology surgery; the new understanding of anticancer immunotherapy, etc. In brief, this book summarized Dr. Xu Ze oncology experience and all of his contribution to the oncology immunotherapy. In addition, because we finished this book during such shortly several months and this book is full of new concepts and broad knowledge, it may have some mistakes which please be forgiven by all of our reader and we also wish you can give us your feedback.
