Side Effects of Cancer Therapy (3^rd Ed., 3rd ed. 2025)
Prevention and Treatment

The third edition of this book has been extensively expanded to discuss all aspects of cancer treatment side-effects in everyday life, covering a range of issues from skin problems to fertility problems, Divided in three major parts, the first part covers medical cancer therapy side effects, ranging from organ-related toxicities to drug group particularities. In the second part the adverse events in surgery are extensively discussed, covering issues in regular and robotic surgery and discussing indications and effectiveness. Finally, in the third part, the balance of efficacy versus toxicity in radiotherapy is discussed for different tumor types.

The reader will learn about the state of the art in cancer therapies and their side-effects as well as possible prevention. Chapters remain up to date via electronic updates and include all the latest progress in drug discovery, surgery and radiotherapy.

This is a very comprehensive work written by a team of world experts and edited by key opinion leaders. This book is aimed at medical, surgical and clinical  oncologists but is a great resource for junior doctors, trainees, pharmacists and nurses.

Mario Dicato, Hematology-Oncology Service at Luxembourg Medical Center, Luxembourg, and Head of the Research Laboratory of the Luxembourg Foundation for Research on Cancer and Blood Disorders. M. Dicato trained at Lausanne University, completed his postgraduate training at the Universities of Geneva, Switzerland, Pittsburgh and Yale, USA. He did his fellowship (subspecialty training) in hematology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and was Clinical and Research Fellow in Medicine at Harvard University, Boston, USA. 

Karin Haustermans is Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Leuven Cancer Institute of the University Hospital Gasthuisberg (Belgium) and a Full Professor at the KU Leuven. She is specialized in GI and GU oncology and has a part time research appointment as a Fundamental, Clinical Researcher that is sponsored by the Research Foundation – Flanders. She is also a member of several (inter)national scientific organizations. From 2006 to 2009 she held the Chair of the EORTC Radiation Oncology Group and from 2009 until 2015 she was Chair of the Quality Assurance Committee of EORTC. She is also heavily involved in the Belgian Cancer Registry as a member of the board and Chair of the Coordination Council. She is member of the scientific board of OncoRay Dresden and Helmholtz- Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (operational proton facility) and member of the scientific advisory committee of CERN (Geneva). In 2009 she was awarded the ESTRO Breur medal in recognition of her major contribution to European Radiotherapy. From 2011 onwards she was elected as a member of the Royal Academy of Medicine and in 2015 she was elected as a fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences.

Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD, is full professor and Head of the division of Digestive Oncology at University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (KUL) and University Hospitals Leuven. He became in 2018 doctor honoris causa of the