1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019166403321

Titolo

Handbook of gastrointestinal cancer / / edited by Janusz Jankowski, Ernest Hawk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013

ISBN

1-118-42331-3

1-299-15771-8

1-118-42337-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

JankowskiJanusz

HawkErnest T

Disciplina

616.99/433

Soggetti

Gastrointestinal system - Cancer

Digestive organs - Cancer

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Handbook of Gastrointestinal Cancer; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma; Epidemiology; Diagnosis; Staging; Prognostication; Prevention; Cancer management; Family screening; References; 2 Esophageal Adenocarcinoma; Screening for Barrett's esophagus and esophagus cancer; GERD symptoms; Hiatal hernia, reflux esophagitis, Barrett's esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma; Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; Staging; Pathological features; Patient factors; Future; Barrett's esophagus with high-grade dysplasia and early esophageal adenocarcinoma (T1m)

Esophageal adenocarcinomaReferences; 3 Gastric Cancer; Epidemiology; Diagnosis; Prevention; Cancer management; Resectable gastric cancer; Surgery; Perioperative chemotherapy; Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy; Adjuvant chemotherapy; Locally advanced and metastatic gastric cancer; Surgery; Radiotherapy; First-line chemotherapy; Targeted agents; Second-line chemotherapy; Family screening; Key patient consent issues; Acknowledgments; References; 4 Small Intestinal Cancers; Epidemiology; Adenocarcinoma of the small bowel; Risk factors; Neuroendocrine tumors; Lymphomas; Sarcomas

Gastrointestinal stromal tumorsClinical features; Diagnosis; Imaging



modalities; Cancer management; Carcinoid tumors; Lymphoma; GIST and sarcoma; Prognosis; Prevention; Conclusions; References; 5 Colorectal Cancer; Introduction; Incidence; Mortality; Research funding; Cancer distribution; Molecular types; Nonmodifiable risk factors; Genetic patterns of CRC; FAP; HNPCC/lynch syndrome; Amsterdam criteria II for diagnosis of HNPCC; MYH-associated polyposis; Peutz-Jeghers syndrome; Juvenile polyposis syndrome; Inflammatory bowel disease; Metabolic environment and neoangiogenesis

Epithelial-mesenchymal transitionHistological variants of colorectal cancer; Physical; Digital rectal exam; Imaging; X-ray; CT; MRI; EUS; Indications for EUS in rectal cancer; Potential impact of EUS staging on rectal cancer management; FDG-PET; Procedures; Sentinel node mapping; Medical therapy; The concept of personalized therapy; Proposed single agent treatment markers; AJCC7 recommendations; Metastatic disease; Prognostic factors; Colonoscopy; CEA; CT; Recent issues; Quality-of-life issues; Consent issues; Awareness; Acknowledgments; References; 6 Anal Cancer; Epidemiology; Diagnosis

PreventionCancer management; Perianal skin tumors; Anal canal adenocarcinoma; Anal canal melanomas; Anal canal squamous cell cancer; References; 7 Primary Hepatic Cancer; Epidemiology; Diagnosis; Clinical features; Imaging studies; Biopsy; Serology; Surveillance; Prognosis and staging; Cancer management; Surgery; Liver transplantation; Percutaneous ablation; Transarterial embolization; Molecular therapy; Prevention; References; 8 Pancreatic and Biliary Cancer; Pancreatic cancer; Epidemiology; Histology of pancreatic tumors; Molecular biology of pancreatic carcinomas

Adenocarcinoma of the pancreas

Sommario/riassunto

Residents/trainees and specialists in gastroenterology, oncology, and surgery, as well as GI/cancer nurses and other health professionals will welcome this accessible guide to the diagnosis and clinical management of all forms of GI cancer.  Separate chapters are dedicated to each form of cancer, with each chapter structured in a uniformly consistent way: Epidemiology of that type of GI cancer; Diagnosis; Prevention; Management; Family screening; Case studies; Key patient consent issues.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910140812803321

Titolo

2010 IEEE 71st Vehicular Technology Conference

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : I E E E, 2010

ISBN

9781424425198

1424425190

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations

Disciplina

621.3825

Soggetti

Artificial satellites in telecommunication

Electronics in transportation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

It is widely recognized that differential decode-and-forward (DDF) cooperative transmission scheme is capable of providing a superior performance compared to classic direct transmissions employing differential detection, where no channel coding is used. However, the diversity gains achieved by the cooperative system become modest in practical channel coded scenarios, where the interleaving and channel coding gains dominate. Therefore, when a cooperative wireless communication system is designed to approach the maximum achievable spectral efficiency by taking the cooperation-induced multiplexing loss into account, it is not obvious, whether or not the relay-aided system becomes superior to its direct-transmission based counterpart, especially, when advanced channel coding techniques are employed. Hence in this paper the capacity of the single-relay-assisted DDF based cooperative system was studied in comparison to that of its direct-transmission based counterpart in order to answer the above-mentioned dilemma.