The MD Anderson Manual of Medical Oncology, 4E

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

Part I: Leukemia
Section Editor:
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemiaand Associated Disorders
Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Myelodysplastic Syndromes:The MD Anderson Approach to Therapy
Part II: Lymphoma and Myeloma
Section Editor:
The Indolent Lymphomas
Aggressive and HighlyAggressive B Cell Lymphomas
T-cell Lymphomas
Hodgkin Lymphoma
Part III. Stem CellTransplantation
Section Editor:
Alternative Donor Transplants:Cord Blood Transplant
Alternative DonorTransplants-Haploidentical Hematopoietic Stem-Cell
Transplantation
Part IV: Lung Cancer
Section Editor:
Small Cell Carcinoma of theLung
Non-small Cell Lung Cancer(sent in 3/6)
Part V: Head and Neck Cancer
Section Editor:
Head and Neck Cancer

Part VI: GastrointestinalCarcinomas
Section Editor: BobWolff
Gastric and Esophageal Cancer
Pancreatic Cancer
Hepatobiliary Malignancies
Small Bowel Cancer andAppendicle Tumors
Colorectal Cancer
Anal Cancer
Part VII: Breast Cancer
Section Editor:
Metastatic Breast Cancer
Special Situations in BreastCancer
Part VIII: GynecologicMalignancies
Section Editor:
Ovarian Cancer
Tumors of the Uterine Corpus
Tumorsof the Uterine Cervix
Gestational Trophoblastic Tumors
Part IX: GenitourinaryCarcinoma
Section Editor:
Renal Cell Carcinoma
Bladder Cancer
Prostate Cancer
Penile Cancer
Germ Cell Tumors

Part X. Neurologic Tumors
Section Editor:
TBD
Part XI. MalignantMelanoma and Sarcomas
Section Editor:
Malignant Melanoma
Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcomas
Part XII. Other Tumors
Section Editor:
43. Endocrine Malignancies
The AIDS-relatedCancers
Part XIII – Novel and OtherCancer Topics of Interest
Section Editors –
Carcinoma of Unknown Primary
Pediatric Cancers
Molecular Biomarkers andCancer
Immuno-Oncology (Jim Allison)
Targeted Therapies in Cancer
Applied Biostatistics
Part XIV. Supportive Care
Section Editor: DimitriosKontoyiannis
Fungal and Viral Infections inthe Cancer Patient
Endocrine and MetabolicComplications of Cancer Therapy
Oncologic Emergencies

Onco-Cardiology
Pulmonary Complications of CancerTherapy
Part XV Palliative Careand Symptom Management
Section Editor:
Palliative and SupportiveCare
Pain Management and SymptomControl
Rehabilitation
Long-term Survivorship inAdult and Pediatric Cancer