Forthcoming

A Forthcoming Wizard

Halfling Tildi Summerbee led a typical, unexciting life, tending the house for her brothers while they managed the family farm...until she was forced to assume the identity of her recently deceased brother and accept his position as apprentice to a great wizard. Now she is on an important quest where the lessons of her apprenticeship pale in comparison to those learned in life-or-death situations. She has become the guardian of a very special book that can alter everything in existence... a race of centaurs gone with an editor's pen, a mountain range flattened with a revised rune, and life as Tildi has known it changed in the blink of an eye. Gone are her preconceptions of society and order. Gone are her trusting ways and belief in her superiors' honesty. But also gone is the shrinking violet smallfolk who masqueraded as a boy to secure an apprenticeship. Tildi has changed too, and she realizes that the fate of the world rests in her hands. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Forthcoming British Railway Dividends

Advances in Molecular Biology Knowledge of Rectal Cancer and Forthcoming Role of Liquid Biopsy

The treatment algorithm of locally advanced rectal cancer has been changing in the last years and a multidisciplinary approach is required to select effective and personalized treatment. Nowadays, total neoadjuvant treatment is an established validated strategy for high-risk rectal cancer patients as it showed and has shown increased complete response rate representing a new standard of care. Therefore, the selection of predictive molecular markers is, even more, an essential and pursued medical needs goal. Moreover, regarding the early stage of disease, one major question pertains to the risk of recurrence and minimal residual disease: when is staging based on pathologic features adequate for a shared therapeutic decision? This is one of the main issues concerning future advances.