International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer textbook of prevention and detection of early lung cancer /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
Other Authors: Hirsch, Fred R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 2006.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Global epidemiology of lung cancer
  • The molecular epidemiology of lung cancer
  • Tobacco, lung cancer and tobacco control
  • Clinical approaches to smoking cessation
  • Pathology of lung preneoplasia
  • Lung carcinogenesis: biology
  • Proteomic strategies for the early detection of lung cancer
  • Sputum cytology and biomarkers
  • The role of autofluorescence bronchoscopy in diagnosis of early lung cancer
  • The role of endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) in diagnosis and treatment of centrally located early lung cancer
  • Bronchoscopic treatment of early lung cancer lesions
  • CT screening for lung cancer
  • New directions in spiral CT image processing and computer-aided diagnosis
  • Diagnostic workup of screen-detected lesions
  • The pathology of screen-detected lesions
  • Surgical approaches to screen-detected lesions and tissue acquisition for translational research
  • Non-surgical approaches to early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
  • Economic evaluation of lung cancer screening
  • Chemoprevention
  • The selection of the optimal target population for spiral CT screening and chemoprevention trials.