Autorentext
Director Leonidas C. Platanias works at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Oncology) and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, USA.

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Advances in Oncology reviews the year’s most important findings and updates within the field in order to provide practicing oncologists with the current clinical information they need to improve patient outcomes. A distinguished editorial board, led by Dr. Leonidas C. Platanias, identifies key areas of major progress and controversy and invites preeminent specialists to contribute original articles devoted to these topics. These insightful overviews in oncology inform and enhance clinical practice by bringing concepts to a clinical level and exploring their everyday impact on patient care.

• Contains 25 articles on such topics as adaptive radiation therapy: MRI-guided or CT-guided; neoadjuvant treatment strategies in gastrointestinal stomal tumors; treatment advances in small cell lung cancer; sexual health following diagnosis and treatment of gynecologic cancers; neurocognitive outcomes for childhood cancer survivors; targeting IDH in gliomas; the role of allogeneic stem cell transplant for elderly leukemia patients; bladder-sparing approaches in muscle-invasive bladder cancer; and more
• Provides in-depth, clinical reviews in oncology, providing actionable insights for clinical practice
• Presents the latest information in the field under the leadership of an experienced editorial team. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews