Title	Gastrointestinal and Liver Tumors [electronic resource] / edited by Wolfgang Scheppach, Robert S. Bresalier, Guido N. J. Tytgat
Imprint	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2004
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18629-5
Descript	XVIII, 335 p. 969 illus., 933 illus. in color. online resource

Cancer of the digestive system, which includes the gastrointestinal tract, liver, pancreas and gall bladder, represents a major cause of cancer morยญ bidity and mortality worldwide. In the year 2000, these malignancies were responsible for 30% of all cancers and 36% of all cancer-associated deaths (Parkin DM, Bray Fl, Devesa SS, Cancer burden in the year 2000. The global picture. Eur J Cancer 2001; 37: S4-66). This book provides a concise, but more than adequate overview of these malignancies and their premalignant states. It gives updated inยญ formation on etiology - whether genetic or environmental, pathology, clinical features and treatments. It also gives information on screening, prevention and chemoprevention, where available. Understanding these latter features are of prime importance as we clinicians are moving from treatment of endstage disease, to prevention, chemoprevention and early diagnosis in order to reduce the cancer burden, to try and delay or at least modulate its manifestations and cure it by diagnosing in the earliยญ est and curable stage

I Esophagus -- 1 Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Esophagus -- 2 Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagus -- 3 Other Tumors of the Esophagus -- II Stomach -- 4 Gastric Cancer -- 5 Lymphoma of the Stomach -- 6 Gastric Tumors Other than Adenocarcinoma and Lymphoma -- III Small Intestine -- 7 Neoplasms of the Small Intestine -- IV Colon and Rectum -- 8 Colorectal Cancer -- 9 Sporadic Adenomas of the Large Intestine -- 10 Hereditary Polyposis Syndromes -- 11 Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer (Lynch Syndrome) -- 12 Colorectal Cancer in Inflammatory Bowel Disease -- V Anal Canal -- 13 Anal Carcinoma -- VI Pancreas -- 14 Neoplastic Lesions of the Pancreas -- VII Neuroendocrine Gastro-Entero-Pancreatic Tumors -- 15 Neuroendocrine Gastro-Entero-Pancreatic (GEP) Tumors -- VIII Biliary System and Papilla of Vater -- 16 Carcinoma of the Gallbladder and Bile Ducts -- 17 Benign Tumors of the Biliary System -- 18 Malignant Tumors of the Ampulla of Vater -- IX Liver -- 19 Hepatocellular Carcinoma -- 20 Colorectal Liver Metastases -- 21 Liver Metastases of Noncolorectal Cancer -- 22 Benign Liver Tumors -- X Appendix -- 23 Supportive Care of Patients with Gastrointestinal and Liver Tumors -- XI Addendum