Lung Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Diagnosis and Management

Over the course of the last decade, the treatment of lung cancer has evolved quite rapidly. New scientific and clinical advances have modified the standard of care and led to improved patient outcomes. At the same time, the treatment of lung cancer has become increasingly complex, requiring the comprehensive review and assessment of multiple issues, genetics, radiology, surgery, reconstruction, chemotherapy, and more. As a result the harmony and open communication between these specialties facilitated by a multidisciplinary team approach are crucial in providing the best care to patients and ensuring successful treatment. Lung Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Diagnosis and Management, written by a multidisciplinary team of authors representing a range of disciplines, is a valuable resource for physicians, fellows, nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, and all health care providers involved in the treatment of lung cancer. Lung Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Diagnosis and Management summarizes the state-of-the-art issues related to the treatment of lung cancer and describes an approach for optimal multidisciplinary care for individuals who have been diagnosed with lung cancer or who are at higher risk to develop lung cancer.

About the Series:
The Current Multidisciplinary Oncology series edited by Charles R. Thomas consolidates and integrates the varied aspects of multidisciplinary care for major topics in oncology, including breast, lung, prostrate, head and neck and more. The volumes in the Current Multidisciplinary Oncology series will represent all related topic areas, including oncology, radiation oncology, pain, pathology, imaging, psychological support and the primary disease. In addition, each volume includes a chapter focusing on special populations and the disease's impact / difference on them, and discussion of future directions and quality of life issues. In addition each volume has a chapter written by a private practice oncologist.

All Current Multidisciplinary Oncology titles provide:
Consolidation and integration of the varied aspects of multidisciplinary care for major topics in oncology
Coverage of all related topic areas, including medical and surgical oncology, radiation oncology, pain, pathology, imaging, psychological support, and the primary disease
A chapter focusing on special populations and the disease's impact / difference on them
A chapter on community practice written by a private practice oncologist
Discussion of quality-of-life issues
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Reviews
"Overall, the editors have assembled a useful reference that reviews the concepts essential to lung cancer management. As oncology continues to evolve into a number of disease subspecialties, resources like this will be increasingly valuable to all healthcare professionals involved in the care of cancer patients."-Doody's Reviews
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Contents
Series Foreword; Preface, 1. Overview; 2. Multidisciplinary Primary Care Approach to the Management of Lung Cancer: Non-small Cell Lung Cancer; 3. Pathology of Lung Cancer; 4. The New Lung Cancer Staging System; 5. Lung Cancer Screening and Prevention of Cancer; 6. Imaging in Lung Cancer; Treatment According to Stage: 7. Early Stage Local Disease NSCLC, Surgical Therapy Options; 8. Is There a Role for Surgical Treatment in Patients with Local Small Cell Lung Cancer?; 9. Evaluation, Management and Medical Therapy of Small Cell lung Cancer; 10. Stages IB to IIIA NSCLC: The Case for Induction vs. Adjuvant Chemotherapy; 11. Stage IIIA Disease: The Case Against Surgical Involvement; 12. Stage IIIA: The Case for Surgical Involvement; 13. Stage IIIB and IV: Potential Surgical Opportunities to Improve Survival and the Data Supporting This; 14. Stage IIIB and IV Disease NSCLC: Primary Therapy; 15. Stage IIIB and IV Disease NSCLC: Recurrent Disease; 16. Conformal Radiation Therapy for NSCLC and Small Cell Lung Cancer: Primary and Metastatic and Recurrent Disease; 17. Stereotactic Radiation Therapy for Primary and Metastatic and Recurrent Disease; Special Circumstances: 18. Tracheobronchial Cancers: Brachytherapy, Laser Resection, Endobronchial Resection, PDT; 19. Targeting Pathways in NSCLC and SCLS; 20. Role of Personalized Medicine: Now and the Future; 21. Lung Cancer in the Elderly; 22. Lung Cancer in Minorities; 23. Immunological Approaches to the Treatment of Lung Cancer; 24. Multidisciplinary Approach to Palliative Management and Symptom Management of Disease; 25. Multidisciplinary approaches to the Psycho-oncologic Management of Disease; 26. Multidisciplinary Management in the Community Setting; 27. Future Directions in the Multidisciplinary Management of Lung Cancer
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About the Editors
Kemp Kernstine, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Chairman, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Robert Tucker Hayes Distingushed Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Texas, Southwestern School of Medicine

Karen Reckamp, MD, MS

is Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medical Oncology & Experimental Therapeutics and Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplant, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA.

Charles Thomas, MD, Series Editor

is Professor and Chair, Department of Radiation Medicine and Professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR.