Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, this text provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary coverage of gastrointestinal cancer, including molecular biology, diagnosis, medical, surgical, and radiation therapy, and palliative care. The initial section, Principles of Gastrointestinal Oncology, includes an expanded radiation oncology chapter, an extensively revised cancer genetics chapter, and a completely rewritten medical oncology chapter emphasizing new agents. Subsequent sections focus on esophageal, gastric, pancreatic, hepatocellular, biliary tree, and colorectal cancer. Coverage of each anatomic site includes epidemiology, screening, and prevention; molecular biology and genetics; pathology; anatomy and staging; and clinical management. The final section on uncommon cancers includes new chapters on neuroendocrine tumors and small bowel cancers.

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Key Features

• Comprehensive, interdisciplinary coverage of gastrointestinal cancer, including molecular biology, diagnosis, medical, surgical, and radiation therapy, and palliative care
• Initial section, Principles of Gastrointestinal Oncology, provides solid foundation for site-specific chapters that follow
• Sections focus on cancers of each anatomic site: esophageal, gastric, pancreatic, hepatocellular, biliary tree, and colorectal
• Coverage of each anatomic site includes epidemiology, screening, and prevention; molecular biology and genetics; pathology; anatomy and staging; and clinical management
• Final section devoted to uncommon cancers of the gastrointestinal tract

Second Edition Highlights:

• Expanded coverage of radiation oncology
• Extensively revised cancer genetics chapter
• Completely rewritten medical oncology chapter emphasizing biologic agents, antibodies, VEGF antagonists, and other new agents
• New chapters on neuroendocrine tumors and small bowel cancers