Salem health : cancer / editor, Jeffrey A. Knight ; medical consultants, Laurie Jackson-Grusby, Wendy White-Ryan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Essays address diseases, conditions, symptoms, cancer-related syndromes, chemotherapy and other drugs and drug classes, cancer centers, genetics, the biology of cancer, medical specialties, tests, procedures, complimentary and alternative therapies, lifestyles, healthy and preventive strategies, and the many social and personal issues surrounding cancer.

""Contents""; ""Complete List of Contents""; ""S""; ""Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy and mapping""; ""Sertoli cell tumors""; ""Sexuality and cancer""; ""Sézary syndrome""; ""Side effects""; ""Sigmoidoscopy""; ""Silica, crystalline""; ""Simian virus 40""; ""Singlehood and cancer""; ""Sjögren syndrome""; ""Skin cancers""; ""Small intestine cancer""; ""Smoking cessation""; ""Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)""; ""Soots""; ""Soy foods""; ""Spermatocytomas""; ""Spinal axis tumors""; ""Spinal cord compression""; ""Splenectomy""; ""Sputum cytology""; ""Squamous cell carcinomas""

""Staging of cancer""""Statistics of cancer""; ""Stem cell transplantation""; ""Stent therapy""; ""Stereotactic needle biopsy""; ""Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)""; ""Sterility""; ""Stomach cancers""; ""Stomatitis""; ""Stress management""; ""Sunlamps""; ""Sun�s soup""; ""Sunscreens""; ""Superior vena cava syndrome""; ""Support groups""; ""Surgical biopsies""; ""Surgical oncology""; ""Survival rates""; ""Survivorship issues""; ""Symptoms and cancer""; ""Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone production (SIADH)""; ""Synovial sarcomas""; ""T""; ""Taste alteration""

""Teratocarcinomas""""Teratomas""; ""Testicular cancer""; ""Testicular self-examination (TSE)""; ""Thermal imaging""; ""Thiotepa""; ""Thoracentesis""; ""Thoracoscopy""; ""Thoracotomy""; ""Throat cancer""; ""Thrombocytopenia""; ""Thymomas""; ""Thymus cancer""; ""Thyroid cancer""; ""Thyroid nuclear medicine scan""; ""TNM staging""; ""Tobacco-related cancers""; ""Topoisomerase inhibitors""; ""TP53 protein""; ""Tracheostomy""; ""Transfusion therapy""; ""Transitional care""; ""Transitional cell carcinomas""; ""Transrectal ultrasound""; ""Transvaginal ultrasound""; ""Trichilemmal carcinomas""

""Tuberous sclerosis""""Tubular carcinomas""; ""Tumor flare""; ""Tumor lysis syndrome""; ""Tumor markers""; ""Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)""; ""Tumor-suppressor genes""; ""Turcot syndrome""; ""Tyrosine kinase inhibitors""; ""U""; ""Ultrasound tests""; ""Ultraviolet radiation and related exposures""; ""Umbilical cord blood transplantation""; ""Upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy""; ""Upper gastrointestinal (GI) series""; ""Urethral cancer""; ""Urinalysis""; ""Urinary system cancers""; ""Urography""; ""Urologic oncology""; ""Urostomy""; ""Uterine cancer""; ""V""; ""Vaccines, preventive""

""Vaccines, therapeutic""""Vaginal cancer""; ""Vascular access tubes""; ""Vasectomy and cancer""; ""Veterinary oncology""; ""Vinyl chloride""; ""Viral oncology""; ""Virus-related cancers""; ""Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease""; ""Vulvar cancer""; ""W""; ""Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM)""; ""Watchful waiting""; ""Weight loss""; ""Wilms� tumor""; ""Wilms� tumor aniridia-genitourinary anomalies-mental retardation (WAGR) syndrome and cancer""; ""Wine and cancer""; ""Wire localization""; ""Wood dust""; ""X""; ""X-ray tests""; ""Xeroderma pigmentosa""; ""Y""; ""Yolk sac carcinomas""

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