The rapid growth in the number of options available for the management
of colorectal cancer presents the clinician with new opportunities and
new complexities. An explosion of understanding in the basic science
that underlies both the disease and its potential therapies has
translated into remarkable technological advances that can now be
applied. So many specialties and subspecialties have now been brought to
bear that it is appropriate to attempt to bring the expertise from these
areas together in one volume, so that practitioners in one aspect of
colorectal cancer management can maintain knowledge and expertise
regarding the capabilities of other colleagues working in this disease.
Colo rectal Cancer: Multimodality Management provides a concise,
focused, and current review of the methodological and technological
advances that have recently occurred in the management of colorectal
cancer. The book has been divided into six basic parts. The first part,
dealing with epidemiology and prevention, focuses on the molecular
genetic events that occur in the development of colorectal cancer, as
well as on our understanding of dietary and environmental factors, and
possible strategies for prevention. Part II focuses on both diagnos- tic
and therapeutic radiology in the management of colorectal cancer,
dealing with innumer- able advances in imaging, and with the progress in
the science and art of radiation therapy. The third section deals with
the surgical aspects of management of colorectal cancer, starting with
surgical pathology.
