Product Description: A comprehensive review of bariatric and metabolic surgery for the general surgery! Topics include: The obesity epidemic/economic impact and diabetes epidemic/economic impact, physiology of obesity/diabetes, physiology of weight loss surgery, history of bariatric surgery, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, sleeve gastrectomy, biliopancreatic diversion/duodenal switch, laparoscopic gastric bypass,   complications of laparoscopic adjustable gastric binding, complications of laparoscopic gastric bypass, outcomes/comparative effectiveness studies, co-morbidity reduction data, economic impact of bariatric surgery, adolescent bariatric surgery, revisional bariatric surgery, the future of bariatric surgery, and more...read more

Product Description: The Molecular Basis of Cancer and the Development of Targeted Therapy; Measuring Outcomes in Oncology Treatment: the Emergence of Patient-Centered Outcomes; The Role of Minimally Invasive Treatments in Surgical Oncology; Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Patients with Breast Cancer; Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Treatment of Colorectal Cancer; Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Squamous Cell Cancers of the Head and Neck; Melanoma Treatment - Where are We?; Liver-Directed Therapies for Primary and Secondary Hepatic Malignancies; Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Esophageal and Gastric Cancer; Soft-tissue Sarcomas and the Expanding Role of Radiation Therapy; Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Cancers of the Pancreas or Biliary Tree; Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Palliative Care of the Patient with Cancer; Gastro-Intestinal Stromal Tumors; What's New in the Treatment of Neuroendocrine Tumor...read more