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Lung Cancer: A Practical Approach to Evidence-Based Clinical Evaluation and Management

  • 1st Edition - May 30, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Lynn T. Tanoue, Frank C Detterbeck
  • Language: English

Get a quick, expert overview of the many key facets of lung cancer evaluation and management with this concise, practical resource by Drs. Lynn T. Tanoue and Frank Detterbeck. Th… Read more

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Get a quick, expert overview of the many key facets of lung cancer evaluation and management with this concise, practical resource by Drs. Lynn T. Tanoue and Frank Detterbeck. This easy-to-read reference presents a summary of today’s best evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and management in this critical area.

Table of contents

Diagnosis and Evaluation

1. The Asymptomatic Patient with a Pulmonary Nodule

2. Evaluation of the Patient with a Radiographic Abnormality Suspicious for Lung Cancer

3. Lung Cancer Classification

Treatment Considerations

4. Treatment of Early Stage NSCLC

5. Curative Intent Treatment of Stage III NSCLC

6. Advanced NSCLC

7. Treatment of Small Cell Lung Cancer

8. Special Types of Lung Cancer

9. Surveillance and Follow-Up

Organization, Quality and Efficiency of Care Delivery

10. Organization of Lung Cancer Care

11. Achieving Better Quality of Care

Additional Components of Comprehensive Care

12. Tobacco Use Disorder and Treatment

13. Healthy Patients at Risk for Lung Cancer: Whether, How and Who to Screen

14. Symptom Management in Patients with Lung Cancer

15. Diagnosis and Management of Treatment Related Pulmonary Complications

Perspectives

16. Lung Cancer - Where Are We Now and What is the Future?

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 30, 2018
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Lynn T. Tanoue

Yale University Medical Center
Affiliations and expertise
Prof of Medicine (Pulmonary); Clinical Chief, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine; Director, Yale Lung Screening and Nodule Prog; Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT

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Frank C Detterbeck

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Surgery (Thoracic Surgery); Chief, Thoracic Surgery; Surgical Director, Thoracic Oncology, Yale University, New Haven Connecticut

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