Regional Cancer Therapy Book

Table of content: Regional Cancer Therapy

Foreword/Preface

Alexander M.M. Eggermont

Part I. Background

1. Biological background: Multidrug resistance-clinical implications

Ulrike S. Stein, Wolfgang Walther, and Peter M. Schlag

2. Pharmacological background

Hans Gelderblom, Joost Rothbarth, Cornelius J.H. van de Velde, and Henk-Jan Guchelaar

3. Isolated limb and organ perfusion laboratory models

Timo L.M. ten Hagen and Alexander M.M. Eggermont

Part II. Techniques and prerequisites for regional therapy

1. Interventional radiotherapy

Enrique Lopez Hänninen and Timm Denecke

2. Surgical strategies

Sandra Grünberg and Peter M. Schlag

3. Regional thermotherapy

Peter Wust and Johanna Gellermann

4. Radiofrequency thermal ablation

Eren Berber and Allan E. Siperstein

5. Cryoablation for primary and secondary liver tumors

Tristan D. Yan, Faruque Rriffat, and David L. Morris

6. A personal history of photodynamic therapy

Thomas J. Dougherty

7. Ultrasound guided therapy

Robert F. Wong, Amanjit S. Gill, and Manoop S. Bhutani

8. Nanocarriers and drug delivery

Svetlana Gelperina

9. Local gene therapy for cancer

Wolfgang Walther, Ulrike S. Stein, and Peter M. Schlag

Part III. Indications and results for different tumor entities

1. Regional chemotherapy of primary and metastatic liver tumors

Rebecca Taylor, James Tomlinson, and Nancy Kemeny

2. Focal liver ablation techniques in primary and secondary liver tumors

Giuseppe Garcea and David P. Berry

3. Peritoneal surface oncology

Yehuda Skornick and Paul H. Sugarbaker

4. Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma

David P. Mangiameli, Steven K. Libutti, James F. Pingpank, and H. Richard Alexander

5. Regional therapy of pancreatic cancer

Hiroshi Yoshida, Yasuhiro Mamada, Nobuhiko Taniai, Yoshiaki Mizuguchi, Tetsuya Shimizu, Yoshiharu Nakamura,

Takayuki Aimoto, Eiji Uchida, and Takashi Tajiri

6. Regional breast cancer treatment

Moshe Z. Papa and Siegel Sadetzki

7. Regional therapy in ovarian cancer

Marcello Deraco, Francesco Raspagliesi, and Shigeki Kusamura

8. Regional therapy of tumors of the bladder

Ingo Kausch and Dieter Jocham

9. Regional therapy of rectal cancer

Stefano A. Guadagni, Mario Schietroma, Giammaria Fiorentini, Maurizio Cantore, Claudio Lely, Cristina Ruscitti,

Marco Clementi, Evangelos Kanavos, and Gianfranco Amicucci

10. Percutaneous laser ablation of lung metastases

Christiane Weigel, Claus-Dieter Heidecke, and Norbert Hosten

11. Regional therapy of brain tumors

Andreas Jordan and Klaus Maier-Hauff

12. Hyperthermic intrapleural chemotherapy in pleural malignancy

Frans A.N. Zoetmulder and Serge van Ruth

13. Isolated limb perfusion in advanced soft tissue sarcomas

Peter M. Schlag and Per-Ulf Tunn

14. Isolated limb perfusion for melanoma intransit metastases

Flavia Brunstein, Dirk J. Grünhagen, Timo ten Hagen, and Alexander M.M. Eggermont

15. Outpatient brachytherapy with seeds - alternative treatment option for patients with localized prostate cancer

Frank Kahmann and Thomas Oliver Henkel