Peritoneal Surface Malignancies: A Curative Approach - Tapa dura

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Emel Canbay has a MD from Cumhuriyet University (Turkey) and PhD University of London King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry (UK). She has had fellowships from the University of Bristol (UK); the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Italy); and Imperial Cancer Research Fund (London, UK). She has a speciality in General Surgery from Ankara, Turkey. She has been assigned from the Ministry of Health of Turkey as an attending surgeon to the Breast Units and Gastrointestinal Surgery, and Accident and Emergency Departments of Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty and Istanbul Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty for four years. She had a clinical fellowship from Peritoneal Cancer Centre in Osaka- Japan under the supervision of Dr. Yutaka Yonemura. She has been completed surgical and clinical follow up over the 200 cases with peritoneal metastases in Japan. She has been working as Head of the Peritoneal Malignancy Centre and Non Profit Organization for Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (Istanbul, Turkey )since 2013.

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This book describes the comprehensive management and treatment of peritoneal surface malignancies. The authors look at new intraperitoneal drugs, laparoscopic approaches for cytoreductive surgery, intraperitoneal chemotherapy applications as well as new surgical techniques to guide the readers in curing patients with peritoneal metastases. The use of biomolecular markers and morphological examination scoring systems described in this book help predict the extent of the diseases to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of patients.

Peritoneal Surface Malignancies- A Curative Approach is an easy-to-follow book on the management and treatment of peritoneal metastases, aimed at surgeons, oncologists and trainees in their daily clinical practice and surgical preparations.