The MD Anderson Manual of Medical Oncology, Fourth Edition 4th Edition

Expert, hands-on guidance for the practicing oncologist―from the leader in the field of cancer management―completely updated to reflect the latest advances

A Doody's Core Title for 2022!

Comprehensive and authoritative, The MD Anderson Manual of Medical Oncology delivers everything you need to accurately diagnose and effectively treat a wide range of cancers―including leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, lung and breast cancer, genitourinary carcinoma, melanoma, and sarcoma.

This unmatched resource emphasizes practical, actionable steps to cancer treatment, providing "to the point" recommendations, chapter summary boxes, tables, charts, expert opinion and patient education boxes, practice tips, cases, and prescriptive advice. The new format of this updated edition quickly guides you to the topic, the affiliated relevant chapter, new findings affecting clinical practice, and reference/evidence.

This fourth edition features:
NEW Q&A, cases, patient education information, and expert advice
Expanded coverage of immunotherapy treatment―written by the 2018 Nobel Prize-winner for immunology
Access to continually updated online content
A comparative table with guidelines from the European Society of Medical Oncology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology
An emphasis on recent developments in precision medicine and immunotherapies
Plus important NEW chapters on:
Cord blood transplant
Haploidentical cell transplantation
Cellular therapy in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation
Pediatric cancers
Molecular biomarkers and cancer
Immune-oncology
Targeted therapies in cancer
Applied biostatistics
Oncocardiology
Pulmonary complications of cancer associated thrombosis