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Elsevier Health Sciences Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Secrets 1e by Michael A. Weiner Mitchell S. Cairo
Utilizes the proven Secrets Series format to present questions and answers in a convenient readable concise manner The text is intended to introduce the reader to the field of pediatric hematology/oncology.Each chapter will emphasize diagnosis clinical management therapeutics and innovative concepts for the future. Highlights of the text include the following chapters: experimental therapeutics the application of bone marrow and stem cell transplants for pediatric patients and genetic and molecular diagnostics. There is a section dealing with quality of life and death issues such as supportive care psychosocial aspects of care of the child with cancer palliative care and management of the dying child. Other chapters relate and differentiate disease entities based upon the age of the patient newborn through adolescent.Each topic covered will discuss diagnosis clinical management therapeutics and innovative concepts for the future.Concise answers that also feature the authors pearls tips memory aids and secretsBulleted lists and pertinent tables for quick review and referenceSuccinct chapters written by experts in pediatric hematology and oncologyAll the most important need-to-know questions and answers in the proven format of the highly acclaimed Secrets SeriesThorough highly detailed indexshow more