This quick-reference guide is the first book written specifically for the many third- and fourth-year medical students rotating on a Surgical Oncology service. The book focuses on the diagnosis and management of the most common pathologic entities. Each chapter covers history, physical examination, imaging, and common diagnoses. For each diagnosis, the book sets out the typical presentation, options for non-operative and operative management, and expected outcomes. Chapters include key illustrations, quick-reference charts, tables, diagrams, and bulleted lists. Students can read the text from cover to cover to gain a general foundation of knowledge that can be built upon when they begin their rotation, then use specific chapters to review a sub-specialty before starting a new rotation or seeing a patient with a sub-specialty attending.
Practical and user-friendly, Clerkship is the ideal, on-the-spot resource for medical students and practitioners seeking fast facts on diagnosis and management. Its bullet-pointed outline format makes it a perfect quick-reference, and its content breadth covers the most commonly encountered problems in clinical practice.
Introduction and Premise.- Surgical Oncology Rotation Principles.-
General workup of the cancer patient.- Preparation for clinics.- Preparation
for the operating room.- Palliative care and the surgeons role.-
Gastrointestinal cancers.- Esophageal cancer.- Gastric cancer.- Small bowel
cancer.- Colon Cancer.- Rectal Cancer.- Appendiceal neoplasms.- Anal
cancer.-Peritoneal surface malignancies and hyperthermic intraperitoneal
chemotherapy (HIPEC).-Hepatopancreatobiliary cancers.- Hepatocellular
carcinoma.- Colorectal liver metastases.- Cholangiocarcinoma.- Gallbladder
cancer.- Pancreatic cancer.- Cystic neoplasms of the pancreas.- Skin
cancers.- Squamous cell carcinoma.- Basal cell carcinoma.- Melanoma.-Merkel
cell carcinoma.- Soft tissue cancers/Sarcomas.- Extremity soft tissue
sarcoma.- Retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcoma.- Gastrointestinal stromal
tumor.- Breast disease.-Phyllodes tumor.- Ductal carcinoma in-situ.- Invasive
ductal carcinoma.- BRCA-associated breast cancer and male breast cancer.-
Inflammatory breast cancer.- Endocrine diseases.-Thyroid cancer.-
Gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors.- Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.-
Adrenocortical carcinoma.
Anthony M. Villano, MD, FACS, FSSO, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Department of Surgery, Assistant Professor of Complex General Surgical Oncology Jeffrey M. Farma, MD, FACS, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Chair, Department of Surgery, Professor of Complex General Surgical Oncology
