商品簡介
Cairo (pediatrics, medicine, pathology, microbiology and immunology, and cell biology and anatomy, New York Medical College) and Perkins (pathology, U. of Utah) assemble 30 chapters by specialists from North America, Europe, India, Australia, and Singapore working in epidemiology, hematology, pathology, oncology, pediatrics, genetics, and other medical fields, who discuss leukemias and lymphomas in children, adolescents, and young adults. They cover epidemiology, World Health Organization classification, special considerations for infants and adolescents, pathologic diagnosis, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, pharmacogenetics, minimal residual disease, specific disorders and treatments, effects after treatment, infectious complications, integrative therapies, nursing considerations, psychosocial and neurocognitive late effects, special considerations for low and middle-income countries, and tumor lysis syndrome and other emergencies. The CD includes references and illustrations. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)