Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
The modern management of cancer: an introductory note -- Epidemiology, cure, treatment trials and screening -- Biology of cancer -- Staging of tumours -- Radiotherapy -- Systemic treatment for cancer -- Supportive care and symptom relief -- Medical problems and radiotherapy emergencies -- Paraneoplastic syndromes -- Cancer of the head and neck -- Brain and spinal cord -- Tumours of the lung and mediastinum -- Breast cancer -- Cancer of the oesophagus and stomach -- Cancer of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas -- Tumours of the small and large bowel -- Gynaecological cancer -- Genitourinary cancer -- Testicular cancer -- Thyroid and adrenal cancer -- Cancer from an unknown primary site -- Skin cancer -- Bone and soft-tissue sarcomas -- Paediatric malignancies -- Hodgkin's disease -- Non-hodgkin's lymphomas -- Myeloma and other paraproteinaemias -- Leukaemia.