Thoroughly revised to reflect the latest advances in neurosurgery, radiation oncology, chemotherapy, biological therapy, and the basic sciences, Cancer of the Nervous System is the most comprehensive, current reference on tumors of the central and peripheral nervous system.

More than 100 of the foremost authorities present multimodality treatment strategies for specific tumor types and examine the mechanisms of tumorigenesis.

Coverage includes state-of-the-art information on image-guided surgery, local delivery systems, intraoperative imaging, proton beam therapy, conformal systems, radiosurgery, new drugs and biological agents, and cell cycle deregulation and chromosomal abnormalities in tumorigenesis.

Cancer of the Nervous System, Second Edition contains over 400 illustrations.

Contents:

1. Epidemiology of brain tumors
2. Neuropathology of central nervous system tumors
3. Clinical presentation of patients with brain tumors
4. Imaging in central nervous system tumors
5. Single photo emission computed topography in the evaluation of adult primary brain tumors
6. Positron emission tomography for the management of brain tumors
7. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy and its use in brain tumor diagnosis and therapy
8. Functional magnetic resonance imaging for neurosurgery
9. Principles of pediatric brain tumor surgery
10. Principles of brain tumor surgery in adults
11. Image-guided surgery
12. Principles of brain tumor radiotherapy
13. Biologic-based brain tumor therapy
14. Chemotherapy for central nervous system tumors
15. Immunotherapy for malignant gliomas
16. Gene therapy
17. Management of non-neoplastic problems in brain tumor patients
18. Psychiatric management of brain tumor patients
19. Meningiomas : natural history, diagnosis, and imaging
20. Meningioma : surgery
21. Meningioma : skull base surgery
22. Radiosurgery in the treatment of meningiomas
23. Radiotherapy in the treatment of meningiomas
24. Medical management of meningiomas
25. Vestibular schwannoma : overview of natural history and diagnosis
26. Surgery in the treatment of vestibular schwannoma
27. Radiosurgery in the treatment of vestibular schwannomas
28. Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy in the treatment of acoustic neuromas
29. Vestibular schwannomas in the setting of neurofibromatosis type 2
30. Medical management of pituitary adenomas
31. Surgery for pituitary adenoma
32. Fractionated conformal radiotherapy in the treatment of pituitary tumors
33. Craniopharyngiomas
34. Nerve sheath tumors of the spine
35. Low-grade supratentorial glioma
36. Pediatric low-grade gliomas of the chiasm and cerebellum
37. Malignant gliomas
38. Sarcomas
39. Ependymomas
40. Medulloblastoma and other primitive neuroectodermal tumors
41. Hemangioblastoma
42. Tumors of the pineal region
43. Central nervous system lymphoma in AIDS and non-AIDS patients
44. Gliomas of the spine
45. Vertebral body tumors
46. Rare malignant brain tumors
47. Surgery for brain metastases
48. Radiotherapy and radiosurgery for brain metastases
49. Epidural disease
50. Neoplastic meningitis
51. Paraneoplastic disorders of the nervous system
52. Hereditary brain tumor syndromes
53. Growth factors in brain tumors
54. Angiogenesis in brain tumors
55. Invasion in brain tumors
56. Molecular genetics of brain tumors
57. Predicting medulloblastoma outcome
58. Predictive markers in human gliomas
59. Molecular neuropathology
60. Molecular markers of metastatic disease
61. Stem cell biology and brain tumors
62. Issues regarding death and dying in brain tumor patients

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