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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300073703321

Titolo

ALERT - Adverse Late Effects of Cancer Treatment : Volume 1: General Concepts and Specific Precepts / / edited by Philip Rubin, Louis S. Constine, Lawrence B. Marks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

9783540723141

3540723145

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Radiation Oncology

Disciplina

616.99406

Soggetti

Radiotherapy

Radiology

Oncology

Imaging / Radiology

Diagnostic Radiology

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.

Nota di contenuto

BioContinuum of Effects of Multimodal Therapy -- BioMolecular Mechanisms and Pathways of Normal Tissue Damage -- BioPathology of Radiation and Chemotherapy -- BioImaging of the Longitudinal Normal Tissue Injury -- BioScoring Systems for Acute and Late Effects -- BioPediatric Complexities of Growth and Development -- Bioepidemiology -- BioGenetic and Host Implications -- Radiotherapy-Induced Biocarcinogenesis and Leukemogenesis -- BioManagement and BioPrevention.-BioSurveillance and Longitudinal Lifelong Guidelines -- Specific Precept: Medical Legal Issues: Malpractice Issues -- Insurance, Economics: Cost of Care -- Nursing -- Psychologic Issues -- Social Worker Issues: Quality of Life and Activities of Daily Living.

Sommario/riassunto

The literature on the late effects of cancer treatment is widely scattered in different journals since all major organ systems are affected and management is based on a variety of medical and surgical treatments. The aim of ALERT – Adverse Late Effects of Cancer Treatment is to offer a coherent multidisciplinary approach to the care of cancer survivors.



The central paradigm is that cytotoxic multimodal therapy results in a perpetual cascade of events that affects each major organ system differently and is expressed continually over time. Essentially, radiation and chemotherapy are intense biologic modifiers that allow for cancer cure and cancer survivorship but accelerate senescence of normal tissues and increase the incidence of age-related diseases and second malignant tumors. Volume 1 of this two-volume work focuses on the general concepts and principles relevant to late effects and on the dynamic interplay of molecular, cytologic and histopathologic events that lead to altered physiologic and metabolic functions and their clinical manifestations. Chapters are also included on legal issues, economic aspects, nursing, psychological issues and quality of life.