Riccardo Audisio – Atlas of Procedures in Surgical Oncology

Автор: Riccardo Audisio
Название книги: Atlas of Procedures in Surgical Oncology
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Медицина
Страницы: 317
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

Written by top European experts, this volume will provide an invaluable resource for young surgical oncologists to familiarize with technical details, develop a critical approach and expand their surgical skills. It will also be a useful source of reference for medical oncologists, radiologists, radiotherapists and nurses, as well as final-year medical students.

Young surgeons and applicants to the EUMC examination have often
been asking for a textbook on surgical oncology; a text they could
consider as a standard in their education in cancer surgery. Textbooks
on medical oncology were predominantly mentioned but a surgical
counterpart could not be identified.
This collection of surgical techniques represents our first step in
this direction. Surgery, like sailing, is an art, and just as there is no
“exact” way to set your sails, there is no exact way to tie your knots.
However, in surgery, as in sailing, experience and evidence are pivotal
in improving our skills.
I am extremely grateful to all of the contributors who took the
time to put a short text together, summarising their expert views on
the surgical procedures that they have mastered. Importantly, the text
is thoroughly referenced and supported by data from the literature,
where available.
I would like to congratulate the young colleagues who have
assisted their mentors in setting this up; this project was always
intended to be educational. The true target of a great surgeon is to set
up a team around him. The privilege and pleasure of sharing knowledge
is immense. In this way, key contributors have been working
alongside their supportive teams to make this project possible.
A wide range of oncological procedures are taken into account:
from urology to breast, colorectal to hepato-biliary, gynaecology, thoracic,
and so on. This is the completion of a goal that the European
Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) had in mind. ESSO was founded
in 1981 to advance the art, science and practice of surgery for the treatment
of cancer. I firmly believe that organ-based societies will not be
able to represent the opinion of a surgical oncologist who is constantly
engaged in a multidisciplinary approach to cancer patients.
Scientific knowledge has no boundaries; although there are no
geographical limitations to medical progress, this book attempts to
collect examples of master knowledge from all around Europe.
This knowledge was conceived within the Education & Training
Committee at the European Society of Surgical Oncology. It is to this
Society to which I am indebted for supporting me and providing a
network of information, which has definitively been useful in assembling
this collection of surgical procedures.
The image on the book cover is an original illustration by Michael
Howard, a brilliant visual artist who also contributed to some figures
within the book.
It ismysincere hope that throughthis book the readers will expand
their knowledge and experience and that this will be reflected in
improved care and treatment of patients