Metabolic Emergencies in Oncology
Metabolic Emergencies in Oncology Ephraim Paul Hochberg INTRODUCTION Metabolic emergencies represent rare events in the care of cancer patients. In contrast to the measured pace of most of oncology, these…
Molecular Targeted Drugs
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Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
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Peripheral T-cell Lymphomas
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Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma Philip C. Amrein INTRODUCTION Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a neoplastic disease characterized by the accumulation of monoclonal lymphocytes in blood, bone marrow, and lymphoid…
Uncommon B-Cell Lymphomas
Uncommon B-Cell Lymphom Jeremy S. Abramson, Jeffrey A. Barnes Multiple uncommon B-cell lymphomas each account for only a small percentage of non-Hodgkin lymphomas overall, but should be familiar to clinicians…
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
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Uterine Cancer
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Colon Cancer
Colon Cancer David P. Ryan EPIDEMIOLOGY STATISTICS In the United States, 102,480 new cases of colon cancer were expected in 2013 (men 50,090; women 52,390) (1), and 40,340 new cases…
Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcomas
Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcomas Edwin Choy, Sam S. Yoon, Francis J. Hornicek, Thomas F. DeLaney SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) are uncommon malignancies, arising in about 11,410…
