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Hardbound / ISBN: 978-1-4511-1149-1 / ($89.99 / £59.00(t) / €68.00(t)) Worldwide
Approx. 455 pp. / Approx. 69 Illus. / Approx. 3 2-Color Illus. / 53 in Full Color / Approx. 214 Tables
8.375 x 10.875 / May 2013
Oncology in Primary Care
By
Michal G. Rose, MD
, Associate Professor of Medicine (Medical
Oncology), Yale University School of Medicine; Director, Veterans
Affairs CT Comprehensive Cancer Center, West Haven, CT;
Vincent
T. DeVita Jr, MD
, Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine,
Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven,
Yale University School of Medicine; Professor of Epidemiology and
Public Health, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven,
CT;
Theodore S. Lawrence, MD, PhD
, Isadore Lampe Professor and
Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI;
Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD
, Chief of Surgery,
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health; Professor of
Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences School
of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; Professor of Surgery, George Washington
University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC
Kevin C. Oeffinger, MD
, Member and Attending Physician, Director, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center;
Adult Long-Term Follow-Up Program, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center, New York, NY;
Thomas L. Schwenk, MD
, Dean, School of Medicine, Vice President for Health
Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, NV;
Richard C. Wender, MD
, Alumni Professor & Chair, Department
of Family & Community Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University; President, JeffCare (Jefferson’s Physician-
Hospital Organization), Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
Description
Oncology in Primary Care
is designed to help providers counsel and manage their patients with
cancer. It emphasizes prognosis, long-term effects of therapy, survivorship, and surveillance to help
the provider advise patients regarding therapeutic decisions and end-of-life decisions. With an ap-
pealing, easy to browse format, this text is rich with tables and graphs to facilitate access and pro-
vide quick answers to questions commonly encountered in the primary care setting.
FEATURES
First book intended specifically for the primary care provider
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Jointly edited by an Oncologist and a practicing primary care doctor, thus ensuring the relevance
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of its contents to generalists
Provides rapid access to essential information needed to assist in the treatment of complications
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of cancer therapy
Emphasizes prognosis, long-term effects of therapy, survivorship, and surveillance–all vitally
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important to the primary care provider to appropriately manage co-morbid conditions and to
advise patients regarding therapeutic decisions and end-of-life decisions
Includes access to full text and image bank online
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Medical
Internal Medicine
