The Role of Multiple Intensification in Medical Oncology

Herausgegeben:Aapro, M. S.; Maraninchi, Dominique

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recent debate about the value of high-dose chemotherapy has centered on single therapy approaches. This concise, authoritative book discusses the possible utility of two or more consecutive high-dose therapies. Also discussed are novel ways to circumvent drug resistance, pharmacology, techniques of cell collection, and pharmacoeconomics.

Produktdetails

• ESO Monographs
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-662-01158-4
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 210mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 201g
• ISBN-13: 9783662011584
• ISBN-10: 3662011581
• Artikelnr.: 39916896

Autorenporträt

An unusually short, authoritative, timely update of the field is presented.

Inhaltsangabe

High Dose, Low Dose, No Dose: The Rights and Wrongs of Medical Oncology.- Haematological Support: Progenitor Cell Collection and Processing.- Pharmacotoxicology of High-Dose Thiotepa.- Pharmacotoxicology of High-Dose VP-16.- Intensive Sequential Chemotherapy for Untreated Poor-Risk Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.- High-Dose Chemotherapy with Autologous Haematopoietic Progenitor Cell Transplantation for Adenocarcinoma of the Breast.- Multiple Alkylating Agent Chemotherapy for Solid Cancers.- The Health Economics of High-Dose Chemotherapy.