100 Questions & Answers About Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST)

Author:   Ronald DeMatteo ,  George D. Demetri
Publisher:   Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
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9780763780920


Pages:   180
Publication Date:   01 January 2020
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100 Questions & Answers About Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST)


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EMPOWER YOURSELF! Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are rare with about 4,000 to 6,000 cases diagnosed each year. Receiving the diagnosis from your doctor can be terrifying and overwhelming. What is GIST? What are the treatment options? What are the sources of support? Whether you're a newly diagnosed GI Stromal patient, a survivor, or a friend or relative of either, this book offers help. The only text to provide the doctor's and patient's views, the updated second edition of 100 Questions & Answers About Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST) gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, and much more. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this frightening disease.

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Author:   Ronald DeMatteo ,  George D. Demetri
Publisher:   Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
Imprint:   Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
ISBN:  

9780763780920


ISBN 10:   0763780928
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   01 January 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD, serves as Vice Chair of the Depart-ment of Surgery, Chief of the Division of General Surgical Oncology, and Director of the General Surgical Oncology Fellowship Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Cornell Medical School. He did his general surgery training at the University of Pennsylvania and a surgical oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He maintains a busy clinical practice and has performed several hundred major resections for cancer in the past five years. He has been the principal author or a co-author on numerous clinical research projects and chapters relating to hepatobiliary disease. He has lectured and has taught several postgraduate courses in this country and in Europe. Dr. DeMatteo is recognized as an international expert in gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). He is the principal investigator of two multicenter trials. He has lectured in this country and in Europe on the treatment of patients with GIST. He has been a member of the consensus panels here and in Europe to establish treatment guidelines in GIST. George D. Demetri, MD, works at the Sarcoma Center Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA.

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