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Cancer and Pregnancy

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Authors:
  1. Antonella Surbone

    1. Head, Teaching, Research and Development Department, European School of Oncology, Milan, Italy
      Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, New York University, New York, USA

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  2. Fedro Peccatori

    1. Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy

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  3. Nicholas Pavlidis

    1. Department of Medical Oncology, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

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Part of the book series: Recent Results in Cancer Research (RECENTCANCER, volume 178)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Counseling Young Cancer Patients About Reproductive Issues

    • Antonella Surbone
    Pages 237-245

  2. Psychosocial Issues in Young Women Facing Cancer and Pregnancy: The Role of Patient Advocacy

    • Stella Kyriakides
    Pages 247-252
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About this book

Te European School of Oncology is delighted to ber of female former cancer patients expected to see that the faculty of its course on cancer and have a successful pregnancy. pregnancy has succeeded—and in a remarkably Another group of individuals that deserves short time—in producing this greatly stimulat - our attention are women who have survived a ing book. childhood cancer and who should be managed Very few human and clinical situations en - by a multidisciplinary specialist team. Fort- compass such opposite extremes as pregnancy nately, many studies are underway and we hope and cancer, hope and fear, sometimes life and to soon have new insights into this extraord- death. narily complex issue. Any health professional who has been con- Te European School of Oncology is grateful fronted with this issue knows how difcult it is to Dr. A. Surbone for her successful coordin -a from the clinical viewpoint but also how chal- tion of our teaching course and for having taken lenging it is on the emotional side. the initiative to publish this book. We hope that In recent years the success of cancer medicine it will contribute to helping many children have has increased the number of survivors and the their mother cured of her cancer and be able to length of their survival, thus increasing the num- love them forever.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Head, Teaching, Research and Development Department, European School of Oncology, Milan, Italy

    Antonella Surbone

  • Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, New York University, New York, USA

    Antonella Surbone

  • Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy

    Fedro Peccatori

  • Department of Medical Oncology, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    Nicholas Pavlidis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cancer and Pregnancy

  • Authors: Antonella Surbone, Fedro Peccatori, Nicholas Pavlidis

  • Series Title: Recent Results in Cancer Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71274-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-71272-5Published: 16 November 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09036-3Published: 22 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-71274-9Published: 09 November 2007

  • Series ISSN: 0080-0015

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-6767

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 252

  • Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Oncology, Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery

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