Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Preetesh Jain Kanti R. Rai CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA Introduction Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common leukemia (25% to 30%) in the Western world. The incidence…
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Philip J. Bierman James O. Armitage Non-Hodgkin lymphomas are a group of related malignancies of lymphocytes. Some lymphomas are among the most rapid growing and aggressive of all…
Chemotherapy of Hodgkin Lymphoma
Chemotherapy of Hodgkin Lymphoma Anne Hudson Blaes Bruce A. Peterson In the four decades since the introduction of MOPP (mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone) by DeVita and coworkers,1 significant advances…
Section VI Chemotherapy of Hematologic Malignancies Chemotherapy for Childhood Leukemia
Section VI Chemotherapy of Hematologic Malignancies Chemotherapy for Childhood Leukemia Barbara A. Gruner The dramatic improvement in outcome for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has been one of the…
Chemotherapy for Pediatric Solid Tumors
Chemotherapy for Pediatric Solid Tumors Barbara A. Gruner Pediatric cancers are rare, with an incidence of 169.1 per 1,000,000 for children under the age of 19 in the United States…
Chemotherapy of Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas
Chemotherapy of Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas Rashmi Chugh Scott M. Schuetze Sarcomas are an uncommon group of malignancies that arise from connective tissue and can be located in any…
Chemotherapy of Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Site
Chemotherapy of Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Site John D. Hainsworth F. Anthony Greco Cancer of unknown primary site (CUP) is a common clinical syndrome, accounting for 3% to 5% of…
Chemotherapy of Gynecologic Cancers
Chemotherapy of Gynecologic Cancers Mark Hunter Malignancies of the female reproductive tract affect the lives of >80,000 women in the United States each year and are responsible for approximately 27,000…
Chemotherapy of Genitourinary Cancer
Chemotherapy of Genitourinary Cancer Maha Hussain Gary R. Macvicar PROSTATE CANCER Introduction Prostate cancer remains the most common noncutaneous cancer diagnosis among American men with an estimated 217,730 new diagnoses…
Endocrine Tumors
Endocrine Tumors Steven Duffy Keith Goldstein Stephen L. Graziano CHEMOTHERAPY OF ENDOCRINE TUMORS The endocrine tumors include thyroid cancer, adrenal gland tumors, pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas, pancreatic endocrine tumors (PETs), and…
