Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Secrets

For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series(R) has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Secrets, 2nd Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets' popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style - making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.

• The proven Secrets Series(R) format gives you the most return for your time - succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective.

• Fully revised and updated, including discussions of supportive care of children with cancer and psychosocial aspects of care.

• New chapters on Precision Medicine and Systems Biology
  Health Equity and Disparities in Pediatric and Adolescent/Young Adult Oncology
  Transfusion Medicine
  Neoplastic Hematopathology
  Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
  and more.

• Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams.

• Bulleted lists, mnemonics, practical tips from global leaders in the field - all providing a concise overview of important board-relevant content.

• Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime.

• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

1. All chapters would be updated and made current

2. All graphs, charts, tables would be updated

3. New chapters

• Immunotherapy
• Personalized medicine with genome sequencing and targeted molecular diagnostics and therapies
• Acute care an critical care management: ECMO
• New modalities in RT such as Proton Beam, gamma knife
• Developmental therapeutics of new agents
• Cancer in adolescents and young adults
• Integrative therapies/complementary medicine as it applies to childhood cancer
• Palliative Care
• Stem cell therapy: Dramatic changes since last edition including mini-ablative, cords, haploidentical, immun-tolerance
• Transplants for non-malignant diseases
• PTLD: Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative disease
• CART therapies (Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cells)
• Cancer Survivorship
• Fertility preservation