Lisa A Deangelis

Neuro-oncology is increasingly recognized as an important subspecialty field devoted to the care of patients with cancer involving the nervous system. It requires a detailed understanding of basic tumorbiology governing formation of the wide variety of primary brain tumors. However, it requires an e...

Patients with cancer can suffer from a bewildering variety of neurologic signs and symptoms. The neurologic symptoms are often more disabling than the primary cancer. Symptoms including confusion, seizures, pain and paralysis may be a result of either metastases to the nervous system or one of sever...

The full spectrum of central nervous system lymphoma is coverered from patheology and genetics to clinical features, diagnosis and treatment. Also explored are new approches to therapy and unusual variants of central nervous system lymphoma.

Brain tumors have a longstanding reputation for being intractable to therapy, and with evidence suggesting that the incidence of some brain tumors is increasing, this has become the most feared cancer. However, with improvements in imaging technologies, radiation therapy and chemotherapy , as well a...

This is the second edition of a book called "Lymphoma of the Nervous System," which was published by Butterworth-Heinemann (B-H) in 2004. Lymphoma and Leukemia of the Nervous System is a comprehensive review of this challenging group of diseases and should be useful for the practicing neurologist, h...

You can effectively learn how to treat common neurologic problems faced by cancer patients. This concise, handy reference focuses on practical aspects of care for patients with tumors affecting the nervous system and neurologic complications of cancer.