Overview
- This book draws from an international pool of North and South expert contributors
- A unique book which addresses the very specific issues in treating cancer in the tropical areas
- Provides the reader with the big picture in tropical hematology and oncology
- Designed as a "field" guide with practical recommendations to be used by physicians with limited means
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (58 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Public Health Aspects
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Basic Science Background
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Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jean-Pierre Droz was formerly Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif and at the Centre Léon-Bérard in Lyon (France). Since January 2010 he is a physician of medical oncology at the University Hospital in Cayenne (French Guiana) and is teaching at the French Guiana and West Indies University Medical School. His major subjects of clinical research are Genito-Urinary tumors, Germ-Cell Tumors and Prostate Cancer, Geriatric Oncology and Endocrine Tumors medical treatment.
Bernard Carme is a Professor of medicine, specialist in Parasitology and of tropical medicine, Pitié Salpétrière University Hospital, University of Paris VI (France), University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. Since 1996, he is the head department in Cayenne university Hospital (French Guiana) and Professor at the Medical School, French West Indies and French Guiana University.
Pierre Couppié is a Professor of Dermatology at the French Guiana and West Indies University Medical, head of the service of Dermatology and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Cayenne University Hospital since 1997.
Mathieu Nacher is a Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the French Guiana and West Indies University Medical School. He is the director of the French Guiana and West Indies Clinical Investigation Center. His main focus of interest is the interactions between nematode infections and malaria, and HIV epidemiology.
Catherine Thiéblemont is a Professor of Hematology in the Paris VII- University, France – and the head of the Hemato-Oncology Department in the Hospital Saint-Louis, which is dedicated to the management of patients with lymphoma, with more than 400 patients newly diagnosed and managed per year (Paris, France since December 2009). She is an active member of the Lymphoma Study Association (LYSA) and of the International extranodal Lymphoma study group(IELSG).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tropical Hemato-Oncology
Editors: Jean-Pierre Droz, Bernard Carme, Pierre Couppié, Mathieu Nacher, Catherine Thiéblemont
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18257-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-18256-8Published: 11 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36373-8Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-18257-5Published: 15 July 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 562
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Tropical Medicine, Oncology, Hematology, Radiotherapy