Current Understanding And Treatment Of Gliomas

Author : Jeffrey Raizer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319120484
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Understanding and Treatment of Gliomas written by Jeffrey Raizer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the significant advances in our understanding of glioma biology that have been achieved during the past decade and describes in detail the resultant new approaches to treatment. Improvements in surgical techniques, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy are comprehensively covered, with discussion of their impact in decreasing patient morbidity and increasing survival. In addition, individual chapters are devoted specifically to current treatment for low-grade gliomas, anaplastic gliomas, and glioblastoma multiforme. Other topics addressed include treatment of the elderly patient, investigating emerging therapies from small molecules to immunotherapy and palliative care. This timely book will be a valuable source of up-to-date information for practitioners and will also be of interest to researchers.

Author : Michael E. Sughrue
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128136340
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Techniques for Management of ‘Inoperable’ Gliomas written by Michael E. Sughrue and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-08-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Techniques for Management of 'Inoperable' Gliomas radically challenges the assumption that certain gliomas cannot be removed with modern techniques, contesting stereotypical thinking and establishing new paradigms in the field. Gliomas are primary brain tumors which are often fatal. Recent data has demonstrated that despite the fact that surgery cannot cure gliomas, patient survival is substantially improved by removing as much of the tumor as possible. This fact has raised the imperative that neurologists try to improve techniques to bring surgical resection to as many patients as possible. This book brings new insights and technologies to the forefront, giving hope to patients. Provides the first comprehensive book to discuss techniques for removing gliomas that are traditionally deemed ‘inoperable’ Presents a great reference tool that challenges stereotypical thinking by offering techniques by innovative surgeons Includes chapters that are organized by different glioma types and surgery/techniques

Author : Carsten Nieder
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319418254
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-Irradiation: New Frontiers written by Carsten Nieder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, now in its second edition, provides a comprehensive overview of current re-irradiation strategies, with detailed discussion of re-irradiation methods, technical aspects, the role of combined therapy with anticancer drugs and hyperthermia, and normal tissue tolerance. In addition, disease specific chapters document recent clinical results and future research directions. All chapters from the first edition have been revised and updated to take account of the latest developments and research findings, including those from prospective studies. Due attention is paid to the exciting developments in the fields of proton irradiation and frameless image-guided ablative radiotherapy. The book documents fully how refined combined modality approaches and significant technical advances in radiation treatment planning and delivery have facilitated the re-irradiation of previously exposed volumes, allowing both palliative and curative approaches to be pursued at various disease sites. Professionals involved in radiation treatment planning and multimodal oncology treatment will find it to be an invaluable aid in understanding the benefits and limitations of re-irradiation and in designing prospective trials.

Author : Gene H. Barnett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1597451851
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High-Grade Gliomas written by Gene H. Barnett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is truly an exciting time in the field of neuro-oncology, particularly in the area of hi- grade gliomas. The management of patients with high-grade gliomas has historically been one of the most challenging and disheartening fields in medicine, where failure is the rule and longevity is the exception. The jaded often state that despite purported advances in surgical and radiotherapeutic techniques and a myriad of clinical trials of medical therapies, the s- vival statistics for glioblastoma have not changed in the last three decades. The nihilism associated with these tumors is such that some practitioners still advise against treatment or even biopsy, recommending palliative care with the diagnosis based only on history and an MRI scan. If the current state-of-the-art in the diagnosis and management of high-grade gliomas was truly so bleak, there would be no reason to compile and publish a monograph on the subject. The fact is that we have recently entered an era where real progress is being made in our understanding and treatment of high-grade gliomas that is directly benefiting some patients. We are slowly but surely chipping away at this problem. One approach has exploited correlations between particular molecular markers and therapeutic response. The first such “breakthrough” in high-grade glioma was the observation that loss of chromosomes 1p and 19q uniformly predict chemosensitivity in anaplastic oligodendrogliomas (1).

Author : Swapan K. Ray
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441904107
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glioblastoma: written by Swapan K. Ray and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glioblastoma is the most malignant brain tumor that still remains incurable. It is such a deadly disease that patients do not survive more than a few months after diagnosis. Our understanding of the histopathology and molecular mechanisms of formation of glioblastoma is rapidly advancing so as to provide us clues for devising rational therapeutic strategies for treatment of this malignancy. It is important that we continue to improve our knowledge about the pathogenesis of this devastating disease and explore new areas to find successful therapeutic strategies. Various approaches such as sophisticated imaging techniques, improved surgical procedures, ground-breaking strategies for radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, chemoimmunotherapy, and photodynamic therapy are being used for eradicating glioblastoma. Hopefully, this book will be an important source of information on glioblastoma and therefore be highly useful to the students, postdoctoral fellows, principal investigators, and clinicians involved in this field.

Author : Kumaravel Somasundaram
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319568205
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Biology and Treatment of Glioblastoma written by Kumaravel Somasundaram and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the most important areas of glioblastoma – surgical resection, molecular pathology, targeted therapies, cancer stem cells, the role of DNA methylation, targeted sequencing for personalized therapy, animal models and advances in pediatric glioblastoma. Chapter authors are junior and senior investigators, who are well established in their particular areas and include neurosurgeons, neuropathologists, neurooncologists and basic scientists.

Author : Amit Agrawal
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1839698039
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brain Tumors written by Amit Agrawal and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-04-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brain tumors comprise a spectrum of histological patterns. Their presentation and management depend on their location, size, and grade of lesions. This book is a collection of high-quality research work from global experts on brain tumors, including meningiomas, and their treatment.

Author : Allan H. Friedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107065976
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Duke Glioma Handbook written by Allan H. Friedman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a summary of glioma biology, genetics and management, based on the world-leading Duke University Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center program.

Author : M. Westphal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3709160901
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Local Therapies for Glioma written by M. Westphal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to surgery and radiotherapy, local treatment modalities for the management of brain tumours are increasingly being developed and clinically tested. This book describes for the first time basic tumour biology as well as all current procedures in progress at the most recent level of knowledge, presented by leading experts in the respective fields. Image guided resection procedures, fluorescence guided surgery, developments in interstitial radiosurgery are addressed, just as intracavitary chemotherapy and all current concepts and studies of interstitial targeted therapy. Owing to its topicality this book will remain for long the standard for this comprehensively treated subject.

Author : Jörg-Christian Tonn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642028748
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oncology of CNS Tumors written by Jörg-Christian Tonn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-02-03 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge about the etiology and diagnosis as well as treatment concepts of neu- oncologic diseases is rapidly growing. This turnover of knowledge makes it dif? cult for the physician engaged in the treatment to keep up to date with current therapies. This book sets out to close the gap and pursues several innovative concepts. As a comprehensive text on neuro-oncology, its chapters are interconnected, but at the same time some chapters or subdivisions are so thoroughly assembled that the whole volume gives the impression of several books combined into one. Neuropathology is treated in an extensive and clearly structured section. The int- ested reader ? nds for each tumor entity the latest well-referenced consensus rega- ing histologic and molecular pathology. Through this “book-in-the-book” concept, information on neuropathology is readily at hand in a concise form and without ov- loading the single chapters. Pediatric neuro-oncology differs in many entities from tumors in adult patients; also, certain tumors of the CNS are typically or mainly found only in the child. Therefore, pediatric neuro-oncology was granted its own, book-like section. Tumor entities that are treated differently in children and adults are included both in the pediatric neuro-oncology section and in the general section. Entities that typically occur only in the child and adolescent are found in the pediatric section in order to avoid redundancies.