ABSTRACT

Surgery alone cures more than 60% of those patients whose cancer are amenable to curative treatment. Surgical oncology is not universally accepted as a unified discipline worldwide. There are many reasons for this situation, including the drive to anatomic site specialization, but also the need to provide comprehensive 'general' surgical provision

chapter 1|4 pages

Is there a surgical oncology?

chapter 4|12 pages

Principles of chemotherapy

chapter 8|16 pages

Oropharynx

chapter 9|16 pages

Lung and bronchus

chapter 11|8 pages

Screen-detected breast cancer

chapter 14|10 pages

Gastric cancer

chapter 16|24 pages

Cancer of the colon, rectum and anus

chapter 20|10 pages

Liver metastases

chapter 23|16 pages

Prostate cancer

chapter 24|8 pages

Testicular tumors

chapter 27|16 pages

Melanoma

chapter 29|14 pages

Thyroid cancer

chapter 30|10 pages

Parathyroid carcinoma/malignancy

chapter 32|10 pages

Soft tissue sarcoma

chapter 33|14 pages

Skeletal malignancies