Cancer and the Kidney

By Eric P. Cohen
Oxford University Press
Copyright 2005
276 pages
ISBN: 0 19 852644 X
$125 hardcover

Don't be deceived by the length or size of this book that artfully transcends nephrology and oncology. This well-organized and well-referenced text has 11 monograph-like chapters and uses a unique approach in that it not only covers the full gamut of cancer conditions of the kidney, it considers the kidney as an end-organ of malignant disease by addressing the physiology and pathophysiology of cancer conditions and treatments that affect the kidney. The book covers the entire trajectory of kidney disease -- acute renal failure, chronic kidney disease, end-stage renal disease, and renal transplantation. Therefore, clinicians from multiple disciplines and in many areas of practice will find this book useful. The content, developed by experts from multiple subspecialties, is succinct, yet inclusive of reality-based information needed by clinicians for early detection and prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of malignant conditions affecting the kidney, and thus serves as a quick reference for both common problems and clinical conundrums. Histologic and radiologic images are abundant in many of the chapters. An innovative feature is that each chapter begins with a case report, thus grounding the content in the reality of clinical practice. Once you read the case report, you are hooked. No medical library, however large or small, should be without this one-of-a-kind clinical reference.