Overview
- Adopts a didactic and structured approach to all topics with key points will be provided
- Presents best-evidence, highlighting trials and graded data, where available
- Covers the core curriculum for fellowship exams in HPB and Surgical Oncology
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This textbook provides a practically applicable resource for understanding the surgical oncology management of pancreatic cancer. It discusses relevant aspects of anatomy and pathophysiology along with the latest diagnostic techniques. Insightful descriptions are then provided detailing how to perform critical surgical procedures when treating these patients. Relevant perioperative management strategies and emerging themes in cancer biology critical to understanding and treating the disease are also described.
The need for cross-discipline collaboration to facilitate and enhance innovation within the discipline is reinforced throughout the text. Each chapter presents the relevant current clinical standards along with areas of controversy in both research and clinical practice within “pearls and pitfalls” sections.Textbook of Pancreatic Cancer: Principles and Practice of Surgical Oncology is a detailed work covering the basic material important to trainees as well as advanced curriculum for established specialists in the field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Therefore, it is crucial resource for all practicing and trainee professionals who encounter these patients in their day-to-day clinical practice.
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Keywords
Table of contents (85 chapters)
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Pancreatic Cancer Disease Burden
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Education, Training and Quality of Care
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Understanding Disease Biology
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Kjetil Soreide, MD, PhD, FRCS (Edin) is a general and GI surgeon specializing in HPB surgery. He has authored over 250 papers, of which the majority with a focus on GI oncology subjects. He has been the editor of the Br J Surgery since 2010, one of the world most premier surgical journals. He is a member of several surgical societies (European Surgical Association; European Society for Surgical Oncology; Society for Surgical Oncology; International Surgical Society, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary tract; the European and international HPB societies EAHPBA, IHPBA and more).
Assocciate Prof. Stefan Stättner MD, Priv. Doz Innsbruck, Austria; Department of Visceral, Transplantation and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria. Stättner is a consultant HPB surgeon work in in Innsbruck. He did part of his HPB training in Liverpool under prof Graham Poston. He has published more than 40 papers on HPB topics and givenm numerous lectures around the world on the same. He is chairing several symposia on surgical oncology topics and is currently on the education and training comittees of both the EAHPBA and ESSO (the European societies for HPB surgery and Surgical Oncology).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Textbook of Pancreatic Cancer
Book Subtitle: Principles and Practice of Surgical Oncology
Editors: Kjetil Søreide, Stefan Stättner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53786-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53785-2Published: 05 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53788-3Published: 05 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53786-9Published: 04 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XL, 1339
Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations, 222 illustrations in colour
Topics: Surgical Oncology, Oncology, Gastroenterology