Colorectal Cancer: Multimodality Management (Current Clinical Oncology)

Leonard Saltz, MD, has brought together a team of leading clinical, surgical, and radiation oncologists, as well as those specialists involved in pain management, diagnostic imaging, and complementary medicine, to create a unified vision of the many new possibilities for managing colorectal cancer. Here the practicing clinician will find cutting-edge reviews on advances in diagnostic and therapeutic radiology and the surgical aspects of treating colorectal cancer, the major therapeutic agents, the currently available drugs for first and second line management of metastatic colorectal cancer, chemotherapy for adjuvant management, and local regional therapies. Additional reviews explain the molecular genetic events that occur in colorectal cancer, the new understanding of dietary and environmental factors, possible strategies for prevention, pain control, and complementary and alternative medicine approaches. Colorectal Cancer: Multimodality Management provides an authoritative evidence-based review of the best currently available approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of colorectal cancer.