Cancer in the Spine. Comprehensive Care
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Author(s): R. McLain (Ed.)
Publisher: Humana Press
ISBN: 1588290743
Format: hardback
379pp
Price: $195.00
Review Date: 10 April 2006
Review: Thirty years ago spinal tumours were considered untreatable. Today advances in diagnosis, chemotherapeutical and medical management regimes, radiotherapeutic modalities, and surgical techniques have improved the long-term survival rates. A multidisciplinary team, with a broad perspective of the relative value and risk of the associated with the many treatment options now available, has the best chance of coordinating care for patients with cancer of the spinal column so that the effect of the treatment is maximised and complications and in jury are avoided. This book provides an overview of the many disciplined that are involved in the care of patients with cancer of the spine, and gives guidance as to how these different modalities can be combined to provide the most effective treatment for the patient. The 43 chapters are provided from experts from the USA.