Imaging Tumor Response to Therapy

From the reviews:“The book is well organized and is written in clear and succinct language. The figures and illustrations are of high quality and are up to date. … The book provides an excellent balance between the essential basic information and more advanced up to-date regimens. … an excellent book for all the medical professionals involved in oncology. The book is well priced and is an important addition to anyone who is interested in the oncology field.” (Khalid Khashoggi, Radiology, Vol. 270 (1), January, 2014)“This relatively small book is organized into 3 parts with 9 chapters. … The book’s multidisciplinary perspective well addresses the assessment of therapeutic response. … The figures are clear and helpful, and the references are current. … I highly recommend this book to radiologists, nuclear physicians, oncologists, and imaging scientists.” (E. Edmund Kim, The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 54 (6), June, 2013)“A well-written, comprehensive review of the latest advances in oncologic therapy and how they have affected assessment of tumor response. … it discusses the latest therapies for different cancers in order to explain the need for new methods of assessing response to these new therapies. Although targeted at oncologists and imaging experts, the book also may be of interest to oncologic surgeons and radiation oncologists. … an excellent review of the strengths and weaknesses of the current size-based criteria used in many clinical trials.” (Vahid Yaghmai, Doody’s Book Reviews, February, 2013)

• Part I Methodological Bases.- 1 Surrogate Endpoints of Clinical Benefit.- 2 Response to Treatment: the Role of Imaging.- Part II RECIST and Beyond: Assessing the Response to Treatment in Metastatic Disease.- 3 Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors.- 4 Renal Cancer.- 5 Liver Metastases in Colon Cancer.- Part III RECIST and Beyond: Assessing the Response to Treatment in Locally Advanced Disease.- 6 Neoadjuvant Therapy in Breast Cancer.- 7 Lung Cancer.- 8 Pancreatic Cancer.- 9 Hepatocellular Carcinoma.