Features
- Cover Type: Spiral Bound with 546 pages
- Published by: Jones & Bartlett Publishers; Bk&CD-Rom edition January 3, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0763740195
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0763740191
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Book Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Book Description
Completely revised and updated for 2006, this practical handbook is an up-to-date guide to all aspects of cancer chemotherapy. The book provides a comprehensive, easy to use catalogue of over 100 drugs-both on- and off-label-commonly used in cancer treatment, including several new agents (recently or about to be FDA approved). A section on Common Chemotherapy Regimens provides a quick reference to management of specific cancers, arranged alphabetically. A comprehensively revised introductory chapter on Principles of Chemotherapy offers a concise, current overview of the field.
Special features include:
Special chapter profiling anti-emetic drugs
Diagrams of drug structures and pathways
Complete discussion of clinical pharmacology, indications, and dosages
Coverage of toxicity and interactions
Separate chapter on chemotherapy regimens for specific cancers
Overview of basic principles of cancer drug therapy
Easy to load and use CD-ROM version
Book Info
Yale Univ. School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Annual pocket-sized reference provides up-to-date information on all aspects of cancer chemotherapy. Discusses more than 100 commonly used drugs in cancer treatment. Profiles anti-emetic drugs, presents diagrams of drug structures and pathways, discusses clinical pharmacology, indications, and dosages, and more. Wire-spiral binding.
--This text refers to the
Spiral-bound
edition.
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