Managing Skin Cancer (Hardback)

Beskrivelser af Managing Skin Cancer

Forlagets beskrivelse

Skin cancer is the most common malignant neoplasm and its incidence is rising worldwide. This lavishly illustrated and practical guide offers the reader a comprehensive overview of the options for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cutaneous cancer. 74 black & white illustrations, 100 colour illustrations, 23 black & white tables

Bibliotekernes beskrivelse

Skin cancer is the most common malignant neoplasm and its incidence is rising worldwide. The epidemic increase of these tumors calls for efficient management by the application of appropriate guidelines for therapy end prevention. Clinicians managing these patients need to keep up-to-date with the latest advances, allowing them to provide optimal treatment. This practical guide offers the reader a complete and comprehensive overview of the options for diagnosis, treatment and prevention and follows the recent therapeutic developments. General aspects including epidemiology, pathogenesis and diagnostic approaches of different forms of skin cancer are considered as well as specific aspects of Actinic keratosis, Squamous cell carcinoma, Basal cell carcinoma, Melanoma and other entities such as Kaposi's sarcoma and Merkel cell carcinoma. Based on recommendations of international experts in the field, the reader is provided with evidence based and easy-to-follow management approaches. Focusing on the practical aspects and being well-illustrated with colour images, figures and flow charts this handy reference offers broad and pertinent knowledge in a reader-friendly format. The multidisciplinary character of this work represents a useful guidance for dermatologists, oncologists, general practitioners and many other specialities in their daily practice.