Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(1) Daytona Beach Shores, FL, USA Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good ground for belief, he will be satisfied with bad…
Endocrine Complications of Cancer Therapy
Fig. 5.1 Diagrammatic representation of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis Table 5.1 Anterior pituitary hormones and major hypothalamic regulatory factors Pituitary hormone Hypothalamic factor Effect Growth hormone Growth hormone-releasing hormone + Somatostatin…
Musculoskeletal, Integument
Fig. 16.1 Schematic of a growing long bone. The shaft of the bone is called the diaphysis and contains the medullary cavity, which is filled with bone marrow. The two…
Algorithms of Late Effects by Disease
*No longer used in current protocols **Patients may have received this agent, but it is no longer approved for use in the USA ***APML Related posts: Facilitating Assessment of Late…
Late Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Effects
Fig. 12.1 Top, delayed radiation injury in the wall of the ileum, approximately 10 years after exposure to undetermined (kilorad) dose of external radiation for adjacent intra-abdominal neoplasm (hematoxylin and…
Adverse Effects of Cancer Treatment on Hearing
Fig. 8.1 Anatomy of the ear (Illustration by Aimee Ermel) Sound is described in terms of its intensity or loudness (measured in decibels) and frequency or pitch (measured in Hertz)….
Cardiovascular Effects of Cancer Therapy
(1) Children’s Heart Center, The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 3415 Bainbridge Avenue, R-1, Bronx, NY 10467, USA (2) University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas…
Ocular Complications Due to Cancer Treatment
Fig. 6.1 Cross-sectional anatomy of the eye 6.2 Eyelids, Periorbital Skin, and Tear Film 6.2.1 Anatomy and Physiology The thinnest skin in the body is located on the outer surface…
Pulmonary Effects of Antineoplastic Therapy
Stage Weeks Major developments Embryonic 4–9 Formation of major airways Pseudoglandular 5–17 Formation of bronchial tree and portions of respiratory parenchyma Birth of the acinus Canalicular 16–27 Last generations of…
Breast Chapter
and Lisa Diller2 (1) Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University of Chicago, Comer Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA (2) Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA…
