Early gastrointestinal cancers [electronic resource] / Florian Otto, Manfred P. Lutz, editors.
This Recent Results in Cancer Research volume contains the majority of the invited expert contributions from the First St. Gallen EORTC Gastrointestinal Cancer Conference, held on 22-24 March 2012 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Written by some of the world's leading experts in the field, the volum...
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Multimodal Approach to Colorectal Cancer
- Clinically Relevant Study End Points in Rectal Cancer / Carlos Fernandez-Martos, Angel Guerrero and Bruce Minsky
- Neoadjuvant Treatment in Rectal Cancer: Do We Always Need Radiotherapy-or Can We Risk Assess Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer Better? / Rob Glynne-Jones
- Treatment Dilemmas in Patients with Synchronous Colorectal Liver Metastases / T.J.M. Ruers and J. Hagendoorn
- Part 2. Improving Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer
- Pancreatic Surgery: Beyond the Traditional Limits / Sascha A. Müller, Ignazio Tarantino, David J. Martin and Bruno M. Schmied
- Adjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer / Asma Sultana, Trevor Cox, Paula Ghaneh and John P. Neoptolemos
- Radiotherapy of the Pancreas: State of the Art in 2012 / F. Mornex, M. Hatime, S. Touch, B. Elmorabit and G. Pigne, et al.
- Part 3. Different Cancer Types in the Oesophagus and Stomach
- Adenocarcinoma Of the GEJ: Gastric or Oesophageal Cancer? / J. Rüschoff
- Why is There a Change in Patterns of GE Cancer? / Prarthana Thiagarajan and Janusz A. Jankowski
- Part 4. Choosing the Best Treatment for Oesophageal Cancer
- Endoscopic Treatment for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma / Tsuneo Oyama
- Open or Minimally Invasive Resection for Oesophageal Cancer? / Christophe Mariette and William B. Robb
- Choosing the Best Treatment for Esophageal Cancer: Criteria for Selecting the Best Multimodal Therapy / A.H. Hölscher and E. Bollschweiler
- Part 5. Multimodal Therapy of GEJ Cancer
- Multimodal Therapy of GEJ Cancer: When is the Definitive Radiochemotherapy the Treatment of Choice? / Michael Stahl
- Radiotherapy of Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer / Florian Sterzing, Lars Grenacher and Jürgen Debus
- Optimizing Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Through the Use of Early Response Evaluation by Positron Emission Tomography / Florian Lordick
- Part 6. Gastric Cancer
- Optimal Surgery for Gastric Cancer: Is More Always Better? / William H. Allum
- Can Adjuvant Chemoradiotherapy Replace Extended Lymph Node Dissection in Gastric Cancer? / Edwin P.M. Jansen, Henk Boot, Cornelis J.H. van de Velde, Johanna van Sandick and Annemieke Cats, et al.
- Predicting the Response to Chemotherapy in Gastric Adenocarcinoma: Who Benefits from Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy? / William B. Robb and Christophe Mariette
- Prediction of Response and Prognosis by a Score Including only Pretherapeutic Parameters in 410 Neoadjuvant Treated Gastric Cancer Patients / Lorenzen Sylvie, Blank Susanne and Ott Katja
- Adjuvant Chemotherapy: An Option for Asian Patients Only? / Yung-Jue Bang
- Selecting the Best Treatment for an Individual Patient / Alessandro Bittoni, Luca Faloppi, Riccardo Giampieri and Stefano Cascinu.