Current and emerging therapies in pancreatic cancer. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tanios Bekaii-Saab, Bassel El-Rayes, editors.
• Editors: Bekaii-Saab, Tanios; El-Rayes, Bassel F
• Contents: Pancreatic Cancer Epidemiology and Environmental Risk Factors -- Anatomy of the Pancreas and Biliary Tree -- Pathology: Preneoplastic and Neoplastic Disease and Molecular Genetics -- Screening for Pancreatic Cancer: Who to Screen and How to Follow-up? -- Staging and Prognostic Implications -- Current and Emerging Therapies in Pancreatic Cancer -- Imaging of Pancreatic Malignancies -- Advanced Endoscopic Procedures -- How to Treat Resectable Disease -- The Management of Locally Advanced Non-Metastatic Pancreas Cancer -- Cytotoxic Therapy in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: Where We Are and Where We Are Headed -- Molecularly Targeted Therapies in Pancreatic Cancer -- Targeting the Tumor Microenvironment -- Synthetic Lethality: Achilles Heel in Select Patient Subpopulations -- Immune Therapies in Pancreatic Cancer -- Vaccine Therapy in Pancreatic Cancer -- Virotherapies in Pancreatic Cancer -- Novel Radiotherapy Modalities -- The Role for Palliative Surgical Interventions in Pancreatic Cancer -- Current and Emerging Therapies in Pancreatic Cancer: Do They Provide Value?.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource ( xi, 379 pages), illustrations (chiefly color)
• Subjects: 616.33; Medicine; Pancreas -- Cancer -- Treatment; Gastroenterology; Hepatology; Medicine; Oncology; MEDICAL / Oncology; Pancreatic Neoplasms -- therapy; Medical -- Gastroenterology; Medical -- Oncology; Hepatology; Oncology; Gastroenterology; Clinical medicine; Oncology ; Gastroenterology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319582566; 3319582569
• Related ISBNs: 9783319582559; 3319582550
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.