Table Of ContentDeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg’s
Cancer
Principles & Practice of Oncology
11th edition
Editors
Vincent T. DeVita Jr., MD
Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine
Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
Yale University School of Public Health
New Haven, Connecticut
Theodore S. Lawrence, MD, PhD
Isadore Lampe Professor and Chair
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD
Chief, Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
School of Medicine
Bethesda, Maryland
Professor of Surgery
George Washington University School of Medicine
Washington, District of Columbia
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Title: DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg’s cancer : principles & practice of oncology / [edited by] Vincent T. DeVita, Jr.,
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Contributing Authors
Ghassan Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA
Attending, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Associate Professor, Weill Medical College at Cornell University
New York, New York
Ross A. Abrams, MD, FACP, FACR, FASTRO
Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum, MD
Chief, Gynecology Service
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Professor
Avon Chair in Gynecologic Oncology
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York
Gregory P. Adams, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer
Eleven Biotherapeutics
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Anupriya Agarwal, PhD
Hematology and Medical Oncology, Knight Cancer Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon
Manmeet S. Ahluwalia, MD, FACP
Miller Family Endowed Chair in Neuro-Oncology
Head of Operations, Rose Ella Burkhardt Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center, Cleveland Clinic
Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of the Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
Shahab Ahmed, MD
Senior Data Analyst
Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
Kaled M. Alektiar, MD
Attending Physician
Department of Radiation Oncology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
James M. Allan, DPhil
Northern Institute for Cancer Research
Faculty of Medicine
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Stephen Ansell, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
Cristina R. Antonescu, MD
Director, Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology
Department of Pathology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Alvaro Arjona-Sanchez, MD, PhD
Unit of Oncological and Pancreatic Surgery
University Hospital Reina Sofia
Cordoba, Spain
Amanda K. Ashley, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS
President, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
San Francisco, California
Jon C. Aster, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Hematopathology
Department of Pathology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
David A. August, MD
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Brittany A. Avin, PhD Candidate
Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology Program
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Itzhak Avital, MD, MBA, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Executive Medical Director
Soroka Comprehensive Cancer Center
Beersheba, Israel
Joachim M. Baehring, MD, DSc
Professor
Department of Neurology
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
Sharyn D. Baker, PharmD, PhD
Professor
Gertrude Parker Heer Chair in Cancer Research
Associate Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center
College of Pharmacy
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Laurence Baker, DO
Professor
Division of Hematology and Oncology
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Michigan School of Medicine
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Lodovico Balducci, MD
Senior Member Emeritus
Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida
Alberto Bardelli, PhD
Full Professor
Director Molecular Oncology
Department of Oncology
University of Torino
Candiolo Cancer Institute
Candiolo, Italy
Ronald Barr, MB, ChB, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology and Medicine
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Tracy T. Batchelor, MD
Giovanni Armenise Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Susan Bates, MD
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
New York, New York
Stephen B. Baylin, MD
Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor in Cancer Research
Co-Director, Cancer Biology Program
Department of Oncology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
