Oncology Books

New and Published Books

1. Clinical Trials in Oncology, Third Edition

   By Stephanie Green, Jacqueline Benedetti, Angela Smith, John Crowley

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Interdisciplinary Statistics

   The third edition of the bestselling Clinical Trials in Oncology provides a concise, nontechnical, and thoroughly up-to-date review of methods and issues related to cancer clinical trials. The authors emphasize the importance of proper study design, analysis, and data management and identify the...

   Published May 8th 2012 by CRC Press
2. Handbook of Statistics in Clinical Oncology, Third Edition

   Edited by John Crowley, Antje Hoering

   Many new challenges have arisen in the area of oncology clinical trials. New cancer therapies are often based on cytostatic or targeted agents, which pose new challenges in the design and analysis of all phases of trials. The literature on adaptive trial designs and early stopping has been...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
3. Image-Guided Radiation Therapy

   Edited by J. Daniel Bourland, Ph.D

   Series: Imaging in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy

   Image-Guided Radiation Therapy presents key image-guided radiation treatment (IGRT) technologies for external beam radiotherapy. The book explores the decades-long technological developments that have occurred in the realm of image-guided conformal, customized radiation treatment. Expert authors,...

   Published February 21st 2012 by Taylor & Francis
4. Nanomedicine and Cancer

   Edited by Rajaventhan Srirajaskanthan, Victor R. Preedy

   The nanosciences are a rapidly expanding field of research with a wide applicability to all areas of health. They encompass a variety of technologies ranging from particles to networks and nanostructures. This book focuses on the application of nanomedicine and nanotechnology to cancer. It...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Science Publishers
5. Adaptive Motion Compensation in Radiotherapy

   Edited by Martin J. Murphy

   Series: Imaging in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy

   External-beam radiotherapy has long been challenged by the simple fact that patients can (and do) move during the delivery of radiation. Recent advances in imaging and beam delivery technologies have made the solution—adapting delivery to natural movement—a practical reality. Adaptive Motion...

   Published December 13th 2011 by CRC Press
6. Proton Therapy Physics

   Edited by Harald Paganetti

   Series: Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

   Proton Therapy Physics goes beyond current books on proton therapy to provide an in-depth overview of the physics aspects of this radiation therapy modality, eliminating the need to dig through information scattered in the medical physics literature. After tracing the history of proton therapy,...

   Published December 12th 2011 by CRC Press
7. Synchrotron Radiation and Structural Proteomics

   Edited by Eugenia Pechkova, Christian Riekel

   Series: Pan Stanford Series on Nanobiotechnology

   This book presents an overview of the current state of research in both synchrotron radiation and structural proteomics from different laboratories worldwide. The book presents recent research results in the most advanced methods of synchrotron radiation analysis, protein micro- and nano...

   Published November 10th 2011 by Pan Stanford Publishing
8. Physics for Diagnostic Radiology, Third Edition

   By Philip Palin Dendy, Brian Heaton

   Series: Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

   With every chapter revised and updated, Physics for Diagnostic Radiology, Third Edition continues to emphasise the importance of physics education as a critical component of radiology training. This bestselling text helps readers understand how various imaging techniques work, from planar analogue...

   Published August 3rd 2011 by CRC Press
9. Thyroid Cancer

   From Emergent Biotechnologies to Clinical Practice Guidelines

   Edited by Angelo Carpi, Jeffrey I Mechanick

   The current age of clinical medicine is witnessing biotechnological innovation at an unprecedented pace. As a result, the recently popularized clinical practice guidelines (CPG), as a tool to assist clinical decision-making, have been struggling to keep up. Thyroid Cancer: From Emergent...

   Published May 23rd 2011 by CRC Press
10. Exercise and Chronic Disease

    An Evidence-Based Approach

    Edited by John Saxton

    It is now widely accepted that there are important links between inactivity and lifestyle-related chronic diseases, and that exercise can bring tangible therapeutic benefits to people with long-term chronic conditions. Exercise and Chronic Disease: An Evidence-Based Approach offers the most...

    Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge