Pet/ct In Cancer: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Individu

Autor: Beheshti, Mohsen

Editorial: ELSEVIER HEALTH

Lenguaje: Inglés

ISBN13: 9780323485678

Reseña: Edited authored and reviewed by an expert team of oncologists and nuclear physicians/radiologists this one-of-a-kind title helps you make the most of the critical role PET/CT plays in cancer staging and therapeutic responses to individualized treatments. Drs. Mohsen Beheshti Werner Langsteger and Alireza Rezaee place an emphasis on cutting-edge research and evidence-based practice ensuring that youre up to date with every aspect of this fast-changing field. For each tumor entity youll find authoritative discussions of background pathology common pattern of spread TNM classification clinical guidelines discussion evidence-based recommendations key points and pitfalls. Contains 130 teaching cases with high-quality PET/CT images. Presents clear practical guidance from multiple experts across subspecialties: nuclear medicine oncology oncologic surgery radiation oncology and clinical research. Includes separate comprehensive chapters on head and neck lung breast esophageal/gastric pancreas/neuroendocrine colorectal hepatobiliary lymphoma gynecologic prostate melanoma and brain cancers. Features short reviews of clinical aspects of different cancers primary diagnostic procedures and recommendations regarding PET/CT from ESMO and NCCN. Helps to reveal positive outcomes or potential deficits or weaknesses in an individual plan of care allowing for better outcomes in patient care future cancer research and application of radiotracers beyond 18F-FDG.