Cancer in Pregnancy: Maternal and Fetal Risks - Hardcover

 
9780521471763: Cancer in Pregnancy: Maternal and Fetal Risks
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521471761 ISBN 13: 9780521471763
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Cancer in pregnancy, although thankfully a relatively uncommon occurrence, presents physicians and their patients with a major dilemma. The urge to use the highest tolerable doses of chemotherapy, high doses of irradiation and surgery has to be weighed carefully against their risks to the unborn baby. This book is the very first to attempt to quantify these risks and provide physicians with a core of knowledge that will be very relevant to making sound clinical decisions in the face of sometimes conflicting interests. The volume evaluates the results of the Motherisk Program, which was set up specifically to address this problem, and reviews maternal and fetal outcomes from a sizeable database of the most common cases of cancer in pregnancy. In reviewing this program and the experience of others in this area, this volume sets out to create a clinically relevant tool for oncologists, obstetrician-gynecologists, perinatologists and neonatologists.

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From the Back Cover

Cancer in pregnancy presents physicians and their patients with a major dilemma. The urge to use the highest tolerable doses of chemotherapy, high doses of irradiation and surgery, has to be weighed carefully against their risks to the unborn baby. This book is the very first to attempt to quantify these risks, and to provide physicians with a core of knowledge that will be very relevant to making sound clinical decisions in the face of sometimes conflicting interests.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521471761
ISBN 13 
9780521471763
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
236
Editor
Koren G., Lishner M., Farine D.