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The Oxygen Revolution: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: The Groundbreaking New Treatment for Stroke, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Arthritis, Autism, Learning Disabilities and More (Paperback / softback - 25 May 2010)

The Oxygen Revolution
HOPE FOR MANY "HOPELESS" DISEASES, FROM ONE OF THE FOREMOST RESEARCHERS IN THE FIELDWhen Randy McCloy, Jr., the sole survivor of the Sago Mine disaster, finally walked out of the hospital to rejoin his family, it was in part due to the miracle of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is based on an almost laughably simple idea: Oxygen can be used therapeutically for a wide range of...

By (author) Paul G. Harch, M.D.; Virginia McCullough

ISBN-13: 9781578263264 ; ISBN-10: 1578263263

Price: £10.99 £8.79 Not Available

Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Series: Breast Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Head and Neck Cancers, Ovarian Cancer, and Prostate Cancer Package (Shrink-wrapped pack - 8 Feb 2010)

Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Series: Breast Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Head and Neck Cancers, Ovarian Cancer, and Prostate Cancer Package
Edited by Dr. Stephen Yang, each volume in the Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Series is packed with practical, authoritative information designed to cover the full range of diagnostic procedures, including pathologic, radiologic, bronchoscopic, and surgical aspects. You'll be able to determine the safest, shortest, least invasive way to reach an accurate diagnosis; stage the disease; and choose the best...

By (author) Stephen C. Yang; Lisa Jacobs; Christina Finlayson; Susan Gearhart; Nita Ahuja; Wayne Koch; Robert Bristow; Deborah MD Armstrong; Li-Ming Su

ISBN-13: 9781437709674 ; ISBN-10: 1437709672

Price: £278.00 £217.50 Not Available

Aromatase Inhibitors: Types, Mode of Action & Indications (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Aromatase Inhibitors
Aromatase inhibitors (AI) are a class of drugs used in the treatment of breast cancer and ovarian cancer in postmenopausal women. Aromatase is an enzyme that synthesises oestrogen and aromatase inhibitors block the synthesis of oestrogen, which is needed in some cancers to grow. As breast tissue is stimulated by estrogens, decreasing their production is a way of suppressing recurrence of the breast tumour tissue....

Edited by Jean R Lamonte

ISBN-13: 9781607417118 ; ISBN-10: 1607417111

Price: £74.50 £49.21 Not Available

Expedited Partner Therapy in the Management of STDs (Paperback / softback - 1 Apr 2010)

Expedited Partner Therapy in the Management of STDs
Expedited partner therapy (EPT) is the practice of treating the sex partners of persons with sexually transmitted diseases without an intervening medical evaluation or professional prevention counselling. The usual implementation of EPT is through patient-delivered partner therapy (PDPT), although other methods may be employed. The available literature and selected unpublished studies were systematically reviewed,...

By (author) H Hunter Handsfield; Matthew Hogben; Julia A Schillinger; Matthew R Golden; Patricia Kissinger; P Frederick Sparling

ISBN-13: 9781607415718 ; ISBN-10: 1607415712

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Economic Challenges in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Economic Challenges in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS
The fight against HIV/AIDS is, above all, an economic issue. The scale of the pandemic and the lack of funds needed to eradicate it require identifying key issues in field interventions and optimal economic policies to fund them. In developing countries, where the epidemic is reaching its peak, the magnitude of governmental and international interventions triggers major crowding-out effects on every other economic...

By (author) Patrick Leoni

ISBN-13: 9781607415879 ; ISBN-10: 1607415879

Price: £65.99 £44.27 Not Available

Histological & Serological Tumour Markers & Gene Expression & Their Clinical Usefulness in Cancers (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Histological & Serological Tumour Markers & Gene Expression & Their Clinical Usefulness in Cancers
The number of commercially available antibodies for the detection of biological markers, tumour markers, by immunohistochemistry or serological methods in cancer are rapidly increasing. Results in different studies are often contradictory and the usefulness of single tumour markers in different cancer types is unclear. An increasing number of studies on genetic "fingerprints" are being reported. This book...

By (author) Dan Hellberg

ISBN-13: 9781607413820 ; ISBN-10: 1607413825

Price: £65.99 £44.27 Not Available

Cancer Biology: An Updated Global Overview (Paperback / softback - 1 Apr 2010)

Cancer Biology
Although prevention should be our primer facing cancer, without proper understanding to the nature of cancer as a disease, we will be failing to meet our global aim of eradicating it. Cancer cell should be looked at as a dedifferentiated cell rather than an abnormally diving cell. And, cancer causation should be understood as a threshold phenomenon due to cumulative inactivation of tumour suppressor gene and/or...

By (author) Tarek H. EL-Metwally

ISBN-13: 9781608761937 ; ISBN-10: 1608761932

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Older Adults with HIV: An In-Depth Examination of an Emerging Population (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Older Adults with HIV
The first decade of the HIV/AIDS epidemic was defined by young gay men dying and activism. The second decade saw people of colour and women account for the majority of those with HIV, as well as the development of effective drugs and the hope that HIV could become treatable or even curable. In this third decade, HIV has evolved into a chronic manageable disease. Few would have ever thought that there would be large...

Edited by Mark Brennan; Stephen E Karpiak; R Andrew Shippy; Marjorie H Cantor

ISBN-13: 9781608760541 ; ISBN-10: 1608760545

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Small Cell Carcinomas: Causes, Diagnosis & Treatment (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Small Cell Carcinomas
Small cell carcinoma is a type of cancer that almost always effects the lungs. Small cell carcinoma is almost always caused by smoking, but exposure to large amounts of asbestos is also a risk factor. Small cell carcinoma usually effects men more than women and while not a common type of lung cancer, is considered very deadly. Unlike other types of cancer, small cell carcinoma is not staged on a numerical scale but...

Edited by Jonathon G Maldonado; Mikayla K Cervantes

ISBN-13: 9781607417873 ; ISBN-10: 1607417871

Price: £107.50 £68.85 Not Available

Handbook of Prostate Cancer Cell Research: Growth, Signalling & Survival (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Handbook of Prostate Cancer Cell Research
Prostate cancer is a disease in which cancer develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. It occurs when cells of the prostate mutate and begin to multiply out of control. These cells may spread (metastasize) from the prostate to other parts of the body, especially the bones and lymph nodes. Prostate cancer may cause pain, difficulty in urinating, problems during sexual intercourse, erectile...

By (author) Alan T Meridith

ISBN-13: 9781607419549 ; ISBN-10: 1607419548

Price: £107.50 £68.85 Not Available

Retinoblastoma (Hardback - 9 Mar 2010)

Retinoblastoma
Treatment of retinoblastoma has evolved at a significant speed over the last two decades; ocular salvage approaches are now at the core of modern treatments, and assessment of visual and functional outcomes has become a priority. New discoveries in retinoblastoma biology are leading the way to the development of targeted therapies that could revolutionize our current approaches to the treatment. In this book,...

Edited by Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo; Matthew W. Wilson

ISBN-13: 9780387890715 ; ISBN-10: 0387890718

Price: £125.00 £100.25 Not Available

Viral Cancers: Cytologic Tools in Diagnosis & Management (Paperback / softback - 1 Apr 2010)

Viral Cancers
Viruses have been linked to approximately 15 to 20% of all human tumours world-wide and their empire is expanding over the years. While histopathology and cytopathology have been utilised for decades to arrive at a tissue diagnosis of cancer, the advent of newer and more sophisticated ancillary tools have thrown light on the aetiology of neoplasia including virus as one of the causes. Whereas in occasional cancer,...

By (author) Dilip K Das

ISBN-13: 9781608764020 ; ISBN-10: 1608764028

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Breast Cancer: Causes, Diagnosis & Treatment (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is often initiated by abnormal cellular mechanisms and damage to DNA brought about by different types of cellular stress. This book reviews the current standards of pathological assessment of breast cancer specimens. There is a discussion of recent molecular profiling studies in breast cancer and how our view of the classification of breast cancer is changing. The current role of molecular tests in...

Edited by Martin E Romero; Louis M. Dashek

ISBN-13: 9781608764631 ; ISBN-10: 160876463X

Price: £107.50 £68.85 Not Available

Visual Diagnosis Self-Tests on STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) (Paperback / softback - 1 Apr 2010)

Visual Diagnosis Self-Tests on STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases)
Much needed by clinicians, this book has full colour illustrations accompanying 46 case histories, which depict the most common ST conditions that are encountered in General Practice on a regular basis. Among the cases, due to the widespread facility of travel, will also be several unusual examples. Some of the topics included are: HIV; Reiters Syndrome; Balanitis; Vaginal Discharge; Genital Warts; Urethral...

By (author) L David

ISBN-13: 9781873413975 ; ISBN-10: 1873413971

Price: £24.95 £18.97 Not Available

Vaccinations: Types, Potential Complications & Health Effects (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Vaccinations
Vaccinations are the administration of antigenic materials to produce immunity to a disease. Vaccines can prevent or ameliorate the effects of infection by a pathogen. Vaccinations are considered to be the most effective and cost-effective method of preventing infectious diseases. This book presents current research on vaccinations to treat a variety of diseases including cancer, bacterial meningitis, multiple...

Edited by David B Steen; Howard L Dyson

ISBN-13: 9781606929698 ; ISBN-10: 1606929690

Price: £88.50 £57.83 Not Available

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Involvement in Esophageal Carcinogensis (Paperback / softback - 1 Apr 2010)

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Involvement in Esophageal Carcinogensis
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) has a peculiar geographical distribution, with up to 500-fold variations in incidence between the low- and high-risk regions. The first reports suggesting HPV involvement in both benign and malignant squamous cell tumours of the oesophagus date back to 1982. The rapidly increasing literature on this subject is summarised in this book. Screening studies in high-incidence...

By (author) Kari Syrjänen

ISBN-13: 9781608762118 ; ISBN-10: 1608762114

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Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Series: Colorectal Cancer: Expert Consult - Online and Print (Hardback - 29 Jan 2010)

Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Series: Colorectal Cancer
Each volume in the Early Detection and Treatment of Cancer Series is packed with practical, authoritative information designed to cover the full range of diagnostic procedures, including pathologic, radiologic, bronchoscopic, and surgical aspects. You'll be able to determine the safest, shortest, least invasive way to reach an accurate diagnosis; stage the disease; and choose the best initial treatment for early...

By (author) Susan Gearhart; Nita Ahuja; Series edited by Stephen C. Yang

ISBN-13: 9781416046868 ; ISBN-10: 1416046860

Price: £89.99 £73.99 Not Available

Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Series: Breast Cancer: Expert Consult - Online and Print (Hardback - 29 Jan 2010)

Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Series: Breast Cancer
Each volume in the Early Detection and Treatment of Cancer Series is packed with practical, authoritative information designed to cover the full range of diagnostic procedures, including pathologic, radiologic, bronchoscopic, and surgical aspects. You'll be able to determine the safest, shortest, least invasive way to reach an accurate diagnosis; stage the disease; and choose the best initial treatment for early...

By (author) Lisa Jacobs; Christina Finlayson; Series edited by Stephen C. Yang

ISBN-13: 9781416049326 ; ISBN-10: 1416049320

Price: £89.99 £73.99 Not Available

Antibacterial Therapy and Newer Agents, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics (Hardback - 26 Jan 2010)

Antibacterial Therapy and Newer Agents, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics
Infectious diseases is a rapidly changing field in which new organisms emerge, previously identified organisms develop resistance to treatment, and infections that had previously almost disappeared become resurgent. These factors require rapid changes in therapeutic approaches, especially in the use of antimicrobial agents. This issue covers antibiotics in specific populations (children, the elderly, and patients...

By (author) Donald Kaye; Keith Kaye

ISBN-13: 9781437712322 ; ISBN-10: 1437712320

Price: £76.31 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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Chronic Immune Thrombocytopenia, An Issue of Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America (Hardback - 26 Jan 2010)

Chronic Immune Thrombocytopenia, An Issue of Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America
Chronic immune thrombocytopenia is a disease in which the immune system destroys platelets (blood cells involved in the clotting process). Patients with ITP have abnormal bruising and bleeding,and severe disease can be life threatening. For many patients, standard drug treatments are not effective, and many of the drugs used may have significant side effects with long-term use. Among the articles in this issue,...

By (author) Howard Liebman

ISBN-13: 9781437712285 ; ISBN-10: 1437712282

Price: £49.99 £42.99 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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