Anne Garrison, Maria Giulia Cicchetti, Mary Linton Peters, Shakeeb Yunus, Angela Beeler, Mark Dershwitz, Amanpreet Buttar, Beverly N. Hay, Christopher P. Keuker, John J. Shim, Paul R. Sturrock, Jeffrey A. Gordon, Chi Young Ok, Catherine W. Carr, Bruce A. Woda, Rebecca M. Kwait, Mary Linton Peters, Richard J. Horner, Giles F. Whalen, Beth Herrick, Laura A. Lambert, Richard S. Pieters, James Liebmann, Andrew Chen, Joyce Rosenfeld, Katherine Saunders, Andrew H. Fischer, Maryann Bishop-Jodoin, Linda Ding, Maryanne Bombaugh, Madhavi Toke, Arash Bedayat, Liana Puscas, Alexis Penney, Harry Bushe, Adib R. Karam, Yuxin Liu, Jesse N. Aronowitz, Gina Cunto-Amesty, Lauren E. Studey, Carolynn DeBenedectis, Antonella Leary, Ali Akalin, Elizabeth Kurian, Karl Uy, Elizabeth Kurian, Adib R. Karam, Geoffrey Graeber, Sarah Huges, Lacey J. McIntosh & Anupam Singh

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Editor: Thomas J. FitzGerald, MD Associate Editor: Maryann Bishop-Jodoin, MEd Assistant Editors: Jean Boucher, PhD, RN, NP; Andrew Chen, MD; Ediz Cosar, MD; Patricia Webster, MS, RT(T) Founding Editors: Richard S. Pieters, MD and James Liebmann, MD Established by the Department of Radiation Oncology and the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology Oncology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Cancer Concepts Table of Contents: To take advantage of the interactive features in each chapter, please download the chapter(s) to your local computer. Introduction Introduction Supporting Cancer Knowledge Needs Using Online Information Biological Basis of Oncology & Principles of Multidisciplinary Therapy Epidemiology and the Cancer Problem The Pathology of Cancer Environmental and Infectious Causes of Malignancy Familial Cancer Syndromes Cancer Prevention and Screening Nutrition and Cancer Cancer Biology Oncologic Imaging Staging of Cancer Oncologic Emergencies and Urgencies Principles of Multidisciplinary Management Principles of Surgical Oncology Principles of Radiation Oncology Principles of Medical Oncology Cancer Treatment Drugs Pediatric Oncology Principles Cancer as a Chronic Disease Treatment of Cancer Pain Organ-Specific Cancers Respiratory Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma Breast Breast Cancer Gastrointestinal/Digestive Colorectal Cancer Cancer of the Esophagus Gynecologic Cervical Cancer Endometrial Cancer Head and Neck Head and Neck Cancers Unknown Cancers of Unknown Primary Image credit: The Cancer Concepts logo is adapted from DNA replication split by Madeline Price Ball published under a CC0 license. Funding Statement: This project has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. HHSN276201100010C with the University of Massachusetts, Worcester. Citation: Pieters RS, Liebmann J, eds. Cancer Concepts: A Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist. Worcester, MA: UMass Chan Medical School; 2015-. doi: 10.7191/cancer_concepts View more detail