Neuroendocrine lung tumors. Trakhtenberg A.Kh.

The book presents the current state of the problem of neuroendocrine lung tumors (carcinoids, large -cell neuroendocrine cancer, small cell cancer). It describes the history of the issue, epidemiology and classification in detail. Genetic and biological characteristics, clinic and diagnostic effectiveness of various research methods are analyzed. Chapters on the methods of treating patients with neuroendocrine lung tumors (surgical, combined, options for conservative antitumor therapy) reflect many years of experience of the authors and generalized literary information regarding this problem. New possibilities of making a more accurate diagnosis and modern effective treatments are described. The last chapters preserve the algorithms and prospects for the treatment of each of the above tumors, taking into account the main factors of the forecast (histological option, the degree of differentiation, stage of the disease).

for oncologists, diagnostic specialists, thoracic surgeons, endocrinologists, radiologists, endoscopists and a wide range of specialists involved in this problem.