Comparative Oncology

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Comparative oncology has undergone a special development over the past decades and has increasingly attracted the interest of researchers who have studied the etiopathogenesis, morphogenesis and epidemiology, as well as the carcinogens and carcinogenesis of tumor disease.

Contents

• THE AUTHORS
• INTRODUCTION
• I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
  • 1. COMPARATIVE ONCOLOGY
    • 1.1. NOMENCLATURE OF TUMORS
    • 1.2. CLASSIFICATION OF NEOPLASMS
    • 1.3. EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CANCER DISEASE
  • 2. CARCINOGENESIS
    • 2.1. CARCINOGENIC FACTORS
    • 2.2. ONCOGENIC VIRUSES
    • 2.3. CARCINOGENESIS AND ITS MECHANISMS
  • 3. TUMOR CELL MORPHOLOGY
    • 3.1. THE TUMOR CELL
    • 3.2. APOPTOSIS
    • 3.3. TUMOR DEVELOPMENT AND GENERALIZATION
    • 3.4. TUMOR ANGIOGENESIS
    • 3.5. TUMOR IMMUNOLOGY
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
• II. SYSTEMIC CANCER
  • 4. EPITHELIAL AND MELANOCYTIC TUMORS OF THE SKIN
    • 4.1. TUMORS OF THE EPIDERMIS
    • 4.2. SEBACEOUS GLAND TUMORS
    • 4.3. APOCRINE AND MODIFIED APOCRINE GLAND TUMORS
    • 4.4. METASTATIC TUMORS TO THE SKIN
    • 4.5. CUTANEOUS CYSTS
    • 4.6. HAMARTOMAS
    • 4.7. TUMORLIKE LESIONS
    • 4.8. MELANOMA AND MELANOCYTOMA
    • 4.9. PERIANAL GLAND TUMORS
    • 4.10. HAIR FOLLICLE TUMORS
    • 4.11. CUTANEOUS SMOOTH MUSCLE TUMORS
    • 4.12. PLASMACYTOMA
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • List of Figures 4.1-4.44
  • 5. MESENCHYMAL TISSUE TUMORS
    • 5.1. FIBROMA
    • 5.2. NODULAR FASCIITIS
    • 5.3. FIBROSARCOMA
    • 5.4. HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA
    • 5.5. OTHER SARCOMAS
    • 5.6. EQUINE SARCOID
    • 5.7. RARE SKIN TUMORS AND TUMOR-LIKE LESIONS
    • 5.8. ADIPOSE TISSUE TUMORS
    • 5.9. SMOOTH MUSCLE TUMORS
    • 5.10. STRIATED MUSCLE TUMORS
    • 5.11. BLOOD AND LYMPHATIC VESSEL TUMORS
    • 5.12. SYNOVIAL TUMORS
    • 5.13. MASTOCYTOMA
    • 5.14. HISTIOCYTOMA
    • 5.15. TUMORS OF SEROSAL SURFACES (pleura, pericardium, peritoneum, and tunica vaginalis)
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • List of Figures 5.1-5.32
  • 6. BONE AND JOINT TUMORS
    • 6.1. OSTEOMA
    • 6.2. OSTEOSARCOMA
    • 6.3. FIBROSARCOMA
    • 6.4. LIPOSARCOMA
    • 6.5. OSTEOLIPOSARCOMA (MALIGNANT MESENCHYMOMA)
    • 6.6. CHONDROMA
    • 6.7. CHONDROSARCOMA
    • 6.8. MULTILOBULAR BONE TUMOR
    • 6.9. BONE MARROW TUMORS
    • 6.10. VASCULAR BONE TUMORS
    • 6.11. MISCELLANEOUS BONE TUMORS
    • 6.12. METASTATIC BONE TUMORS
    • 6.13. TUMOR-LIKE BONE LESIONS
    • 6.14. JOINT AND RELATED STRUCTURE TUMORS
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • List of Figures 6.1-6.24
  • 7. TUMORS OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
    • 7.1. NASOPHARYNGEAL, PARANASAL SINUS, LARYNGEAL AND TRACHEAL TUMORS
    • 7.2. ENDEMIC ETHMOID TUMORS
    • 7.3. TUMORS OF THE LUNG
    • 7.4. TUMORLIKE LESIONS
    • 7.5. PLEURAL TUMORS
    • 7.6. EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED NASAL AND LUNG TUMORS
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • List of Figures 7.1-7.24
  • 8. TUMORS OF THE ALIMENTARY SYSTEM
    • 8.1. EPITHELIAL TUMORS
    • 8.2. TUMORS OF ODONTOGENIC ORIGIN
    • 8.3. TUMORS OF ODONTOGENIC EPITHELIUM WITH ODONTOGENIC MESENCHYME
    • 8.4. TUMORS COMPOSED PRIMARILY OF ODONTOGENIC ECTOMESENCHYME
    • 8.5. TUMORS DERIVED FROM THE TISSUES OF THE PERIODONTAL LIGAMENT
    • 8.6. CYSTS OF THE JAW
    • 8.7. TUMORLIKE LESIONS
    • 8.8. SALIVARY GLAND TUMORS
    • 8.9. EPITHELIAL TUMORS
    • 8.10. NONEPITHELIAL TUMORS
    • 8.11. SECONDARY TUMORS
    • 8.12. UNCLASSIFIED TUMORS
    • 8.13. TUMORLIKE LESIONS
    • 8.14. THERAPY OF ORAL CAVITY TUMORS
    • 8.15. ESOPHAGEAL AND FORESTOMACH TUMORS
    • 8.16. LOWER DIGESTIVE TRACT TUMORS
    • 8.17. ANAL AND PERIANAL TUMORS
    • 8.18. TUMORS OF THE PANCREAS
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • List of Figures 8.1-8.40
  • 9. TUMORS OF THE LIVER AND GALLBLADDER
    • 9.1. LIVER CARCINOGENESIS
    • 9.2. LIVER TUMORS
    • 9.3. TUMORS OF THE GALLBLADDER
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • List of Figures 9.1-9.16
  • 10. FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMORS
    • 10.1. TUMORS OF THE OVARY
    • 10.2. TUMORS OF THE UTERINE TUBE (OVIDUCT)
    • 10.3. TUMORS OF THE UTERUS
    • 10.4. CERVICAL TUMORS
    • 10.5. TUMORS OF THE VAGINA AND VULVA
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • List of Figures 10.1-10/24
  • 11. MAMMARY GLAND TUMORS
    • 11.1. CARCINOMA
    • 11.2. SARCOMA
    • 11.3. CARCINOSARCOMA
    • 11.4. BENIGN TUMORS
    • 11.5. BENIGN DYSPLASIAS
    • 11.6. MAMMARY TUMORS IN OTHER SPECIES
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • List of Figures 11.1-11.32
  • 12. MALE GENITAL TRACT TUMORS
    • 12.1. TUMORS OF THE TESTIS
    • 12.2. TUMORS OF ACCESSORY REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS
    • 12.3. TUMORS OF THE PENIS
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • List of Figures 12.1-12.32
  • 13. URINARY TRACT TUMORS
    • 13.1. RENAL NEOPLASMS
    • 13.2. URINARY BLADDER AND URETHRAL TUMORS
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • List of Figures 13.1-13.32
  • 14. NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMORS
    • 14.1. TUMORS OF NEUROEPITHELIAL TISSUE
    • 14.2. TUMORS OF THE MENINGES
    • 14.3. LYMPHOMAS AND HEMATOPOIETIC TUMORS
    • 14.4. METASTATIC TUMORS
    • 14.5. TUMORS AFFECTING THE CNS BY EXTENSION OR IMPINGEMENT
    • 14.6. TUMORS OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • List of Figures 4.1-4.21
  • 15. OCULAR AND OTIC TUMORS
    • 15.1. OCULAR TUMORS
    • 15.2. OTIC TUMORS
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • List of Figures 15.1-15.11
  • 16. ENDOCRINE TUMORS
    • 16.1. THYROID TUMORS
    • 16.2. PARATHYROID TUMORS
    • 16.3. CHEMORECEPTOR TUMORS
    • 16.4. PITUITARY TUMORS
    • 16.5. ADRENAL GLAND TUMORS
    • 16.6. DIFFUSE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM TUMORS or APUD-omas
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • List of Figures 16.1-16.24
  • 17. TUMORS OF HEMATOPOIETIC AND LYMPHOID TISSUES
    • 17.1. TUMORS OF THE LYMPHOID SYSTEM
    • 17.2. TUMORS OF THE MYELOID SYSTEM
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • List of Figures 17.1-17.120
• III. DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY
  • 18. CANCER DIAGNOSIS
    • 18.1. CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS
    • 18.2. MORPHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS
    • 18.3. CYTODIAGNOSIS
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • 19. PRINCIPLES OF ANTICANCER THERAPY
    • 19.1. SURGICAL TREATMENT
    • 19.2. RADIOTHERAPY
    • 19.3. CHEMOTHERAPY
    • 19.4. HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY
    • 19.5. COMBINED TREATMENT
    • 19.6. PHOTOTHERAPY
    • 19.7. IMMUNOTHERAPY
    • 19.8. METABOLIC DISORDERS AND NUTRITIONAL THERAPY IN CANCER PATIENTS
    • BIBLIOGRAPHY