The Bethesda Handbook of Clinical Oncology

By Carmen J. Allegra, James L. Gulley, Jame Abraham, et al.

Book Overview

The Bethesda Handbook of Clinical Oncology is a clear, concise and comprehensive reference book for the busy clinician to use in his or her daily patient encounters. It focuses less on etiology, pathophysiology, and epidemiology, and considerably more on practical clinical information. Cancer management information is presented in a reader-friendly format that offers a comprehensive review of each disease along with the most commonly used treatment regimens, including chemotherapy dosing and schedules. Features: Clear, concise, complete reference book for busy clinician for daily patient management User-friendly formatting - tables, algorithms, charts, bullet points Contributors all from NIH (or they trained there) Great for board exams Organized by body region New to this edition: Add a chapter on Cancer Genetics and expand the Basics of Genomics for practicing oncologists to include the clinically relevant molecular tests. Major addition will be to add about 5 board review question and answers per chapter - more than 200 board review questions New treatment regimens added to all appropriate chapters New clinical trial data added on treatment More chemotherapeutic agents added (including newer regimens and dosages)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451187580
• ISBN13: 9781451187588
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Length: 742 Pages
• Weight: 2.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Nice concise overview pocketbook

This is a good book for a quick overview of oncology for a starting point. Appropriate for surgical, medical, and radiation oncologist as well as medical students interested in oncology.

Excellent user friendly cancer book

I have read bethesda handbook of oncology. It is a well written, user friendly book with many pictures, algorithms, tables and charts. I use it regularly as a quick bedside reference. I will recommend this book for anybody in clinical oncology. Moreover it is written by some of the well known names in the field. Many of authors have written chapters in the famous oncology text book written by Devita also.

A ready reckoner for oncology practitioners in remote worlds

The Bethesda Handbook of Clinical Oncology by Jame Abraham, MD, and Carmen J. Allegra, MD, comprehensively reviews the clinical features, current management & etio-pathology of all common malignancies. The chapters on supportive care, oncological emergencies and therapeutic procedures in medical oncology though brief are quite precise and informative. The best part of the book is its tables, flow charts and algorithms, which are a ready reference for uptodate information. It truly provides a quick access to information on most common practical problems encountered by clinicians in their daily practice and their solutions .The field of oncology is ever changing and new information is added each year. This handbook would certainly be of great help as an affordable ready reckoner for physicians practicing oncology in remote areas without much access to latest literature. However there are a few suggestions for improvement: (1) inclusion of a chapter on gestational trophoblastic tumors (2) inclusion of a basic chapter on cell cycle and (3) a more detailed description on anti cancer drugs