Renal Cancer: Current Status and Innovations - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3030847551 ISBN 13 : 9783030847555

Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2022

Synopsis

Renal Cancer: Current Status and Innovations provides a useful guide to the fundamental basics and latest diagnostic and treatment techniques for Renal Cancer. It features clearly structured and easy-to-understand chapters enabling the reader to develop a thorough understanding of screening, surveillance, diagnostics, pathology, robotic and open surgical approaches, ablation, medical treatment, psychology, and future innovations.

The book provides a valuable resource for the full spectrum of clinicians involved in the multidisciplinary management of Renal Cancer.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mr Christopher Anderson is a Consultant Urological Surgeon with a specialist interest in Renal and Prostate cancer. He has particular expertise in minimally invasive surgical approaches. He was an early adopter of laparoscopy and also an integral member of the team of Urologists who pioneered robotic surgery introducing it to the UK in 2005. He was the first surgeon to perform Laparoscopic Cryotherapy in the UK in 2004 and accrued a large cohort of such patients with long term follow up. He completed his undergraduate training at Stellenbosch University and his postgraduate training at Cape Town University South Africa and commenced a substantive Consultant post at St George's University Hospital in London in 1999. His early training in Laparoscopy and Robotic surgery took him on fellowships to Cleveland Clinic (Ohio), Jackson Memorial Hospital (Miami) and Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit) as well as University Hospital of Leipzig (Germany). In the early years of Laparoscopicdevelopment He was a Trainer at Laparoscopic courses in Germany at Aesculap Academy Tuttlingen and Charite Hospital Berlin where he trained numerous UK and European Urologists. He was subsequently a Proctor to many UK Urologists in the field of Robotics. He has numerous peer review publications to his name and is an active clinical researcher in his field. He is a high volume surgeon and has built up a comprehensive tertiary referral Renal Cancer Service at St Georges Hospital. He is a passionate family man with whom he enjoys his musical and sporting interests.

Dr Mehran Afshar, PhD, MB BS(Lond), MRCP(UK), PGDip(Onc), is a consultant oncologist at St George's University Hospitals, London, UK, specializing in the management of urological malignancies; he is also the Clinical Lead for Acute Oncology Services and Lead for Undergraduate Education in Oncology. He is an honorary Senior Lecturer at St Georges, University of London. He studied medicineat Barts & The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London (MBBS 2001), and completed his PhD in urologic oncology at Warwick University, Warwick, UK. Dr Afshar's research interests include big data research, cancer informatics, biomarkers in cancer, and psycho-oncology, focusing on prostate, bladder, kidney, and penile cancers. He believes in a multi-faceted approach to cancer research and the care of the patient with cancer, integrating scientific, holistic, and technological interventions into an overarching therapeutic paradigm. He currently has over 50 publications and international presentations in his specialist fields. A number of his clinical works have achieved national and international acclaim with over 400 press articles in news outlets across 4 continents.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030847551
• ISBN 13: 9783030847555
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Éditeur: Anderson Christopher, Afshar Mehran
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