The American Cancer Society's Oncology in Practice: Clinical Management Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9781118517642 ISBN-10: 1118517644 Copyright: 2018 Edition: 1st Editor: The American Cancer Society, Doody's Expert Review    Score: 100 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: Ravi Salgia,  MD, PhD  (City of Hope) Description Applying the principles of multidisciplinary care to specific forms of cancer, this book focuses on summarizing the population burden, disease risk factors, screening and diagnosis, and follow-up and survivorship considerations. Purpose A major motivation for this scholarly work is to detail recent developments in oncology practice and clinical management for those who are new to the field or to a particular aspect of multidisciplinary cancer control, as well as for experienced practitioners who have not had a chance to update themselves. Audience This is a valuable guide for everyone interested/involved in cancer care, especially from a clinical perspective, regardless of whether they are experienced clinicians, interns, fellows or students, or related healthcare providers. Features This impressive book, written by cancer experts from the leading cancer centers and institutes across the U.S., contains 47 chapters covering all major cancers conveniently grouped into 14 sections. Each of the first 12 sections, which encompass 43 of the 47 chapters, focuses on cancers mostly by organ type. The last two sections deal with cancers of unknown primary, paraneoplastic syndromes and peritoneal carcinomas, and pediatric and adolescent oncology. Each chapter, aside from being well organized and well presented, is written in an easy-to-understand style and more from a practical point of view. Each chapter also includes an appropriate number of color illustrations/pictomicrographs and tables, and an impressive bibliography referencing the original literature, making this a comprehensive reference as well. Assessment This is an excellent contribution from an authoritative and well respected professional body in oncology and is a must have for everyone in the field. It also is a great companion to The American Cancer Society's Principles of Oncology: Prevention to Survivorship (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018) Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the author's objectives met? 10 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 10 1-5 Is this written at an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? 5 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. 5 1-5 Rate the print quality of the illustrations. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient references? 5 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. 5 1-5 Rate the pertinence of the references. 5 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. 5 1-5 If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book N/A 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 10 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? N/A ©2024 Doody Enterprises, Inc.