Handbook of Gastrointestinal Cancer

Residents/trainees and specialists in gastroenterology, oncology, and surgery, as well as GI/cancer nurses and other health professionals will welcome this accessible guide to the diagnosis and clinical management of all forms of GI cancer. Separate chapters are dedicated to each form of cancer, with each chapter structured in a uniformly consistent way: Epidemiology of that type of GI cancer; Diagnosis; Prevention; Management; Family screening; Case studies; Key patient consent issues. CONTENTS 1 Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Jianmin Tian and Kenneth K. Wang 2 Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Epidemiology Nimish Vakil Family Screening: Barrett Esophagus and Esophagus Cancer Yvonne Romero and Kee Wook Jung Prognostication C. J. Peters and R.C. Fitzgerald Key Issues in Patient Informed Consent Grant M. Fullarton and Paul Glen 3 Gastric Cancer Branislav Bystricky and David Cunningham 4 Small Intestinal Cancers Nadir Arber and Menachem Moshkowitz 5 Clinician’s Guide to Colorectal Cancer: An Evidence Based Compilation Shahab Ahmed and Cathy Eng 6 Anal Cancer Jeffrey J. Meyer, Christopher G. Willett, Brian G. Czito 7 Primary Hepatic Cancer Anan H. Said, Kirti Shetty, Ying Li, Boris Blechacz, Ernest Hawk & Lopa Mishra 8 Pancreatic and Biliary Cancer Neil Bhardwaj, David M. Lloyd 9 GI Endocrine Cancer Mohid Shakil Khan and Martyn Caplin 10 Gastrointestinal Lymphoma Eliza A. Hawkes, Andrew Wotherspoon and David Cunningham