Description
Book SynopsisCancer imposes daunting effects on the nervous system Brain cancer is one of the most devastating diagnoses a physician can deliver. Cancer of the nervous system can take many different forms. Treatment is specific to the type of malignancy, its location in the nervous system and, increasingly, its molecular characteristics. The challenges manifest further when management choices need to be made, and multidisciplinary approaches are required. Additional complexities arise in children, where the developing neurological system requires more sensitive treatment.
Neuro-oncology unmasks the complexities to provide a straightforward guide to cancers of the nervous system. Following a general approach to diagnosis and treatment, the clinical aspects of specific cancer types in adults and children are explained in practical terms. A final section considers the effect of system cancer on the nervous system and the side effects of treatment.
Clinical in approach,
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“This is an excellent addition to any clinical library that supports the care of patients with brain tumors. It fills a void in a discipline that is undergoing rapid change in its approach to treatment.” (Doody’s, 14 September 2012)
Table of ContentsList of Contributors, xxx
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Section I: Overview and General Aspects of Theory
1 Diagnosis of Brain Tumors: Clinical and Radiographic
Isabel Arrillaga-Romany, Eudocia Quant Lee and Patrick Y. Wen
2 Epidemiology and Etiology
Melissa L. Bondy, Yanhong Liu and Michael Scheurer
3 General Aspects of Surgery
Brian Williams, Robert Louis and Mark Shaffrey
4 General Approach to Radiation Oncology
Jennifer S. Yu and Daphne Haas-Kogan
5 General Aspects of Chemotherapy including "Biologic Agents"
Jethro Hu and Santosh Kesari
Section II: Adult Nervous System Tumors
6 Malignant Gliomas in Adulthood
Michael Ivan, Matthew Tate, and Jennifer Clarke
7 LGG and Oligodendrogliomas in Adulthood
Derek R Johnson and Kurt A. Jaeckle
8 Ependymomas
Kanwal P.S. Raghav and Mark Gilbert
9 Germ Cell Tumors and Other Pineal Region Tumors
Geneviève Legault and Jeffrey C. Allen
10 Sellar Tumors: Pituitary Adenomas and Craniopharyngiomas
Robert G. Louis and Robert Dallapiazza and John Jane Jr.
11 Meningiomas
Wendy Sherman and Jeffrey Raizer
12 Intradural Spinal Cord Tumors
Ben Shofty, Akiva Korn, Zvi Lidar and Shlomi Constantini
Section III: Pediatric Brain Tumors
13 Gliomas in Childhood
Bruce H. Cohen
14 Embryonal Tumors
Roger J. Packer
15 Infantile Brain Tumors
Alyssa Reddy
Section IV: Systemic Concerns to the CNS and Treatment Sequelea
16 Primary Central Nervous System Lymphomas
Jerome Graber and Antonio M.P. Omuro
17 Intracranial Metastases
Mary Welch and Thomas J. Kaley
18 Spinal Cord Compression
Melike Mut
19 Leptomeningeal Metastases
Sean Grimm and Marc Chamberlain
20 Immune Mediated Paraneoplastic Neurologic Disorders: An Overview
Myrna R. Rosenfeld and Josep Dalmau
21 Neurotoxicity of Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy
Eudocia C. Quant Lee
