Description

This textbook discusses core principles and practices in gastrointestinal oncology and covers a wide range of practice areas such as pathology and radiologic images, epidemiology, genetics, staging, multidisciplinary management of specific gastrointestinal cancer, and pathology for each primary tumor site. The comprehensive coverage makes Textbook of Gastrointestinal Oncology a useful resource for the practitioner wishing to gain a greater understanding of the principles of managing malignant gastrointestinal disease, as well as medical oncology fellows, surgeons, radiation oncologists, gastroenterologists and fellows, and residents.

Reviews

Really good book. Probably why I passed my pediatrics rotation in medical school.

However, it uses WAYYYY too many abbreviations. Sometimes I’d be reading and then see an abbreviation that I had no idea about and I’d have to go back several pages even to find where they mentioned the original meaning of it. It became a hugely frustrating exercise. Sometimes they didn’t even explain the abbreviation originally and it was somehow implied that the reader should know it, even if it is unheard of.

Some of the organization is weird, too. Like there is an end of chapter practice question where the answer is to give a systemic course of steroids for an asthma exacerbation, but it’s not on the algorithm page for asthma. Instead, it’s at the end of a written section on a totally different part of the chapter.