Clinical radiation oncology
By: [edited by] Leonard L. Gunderson, Joel E. Tepper.
Contributors: Gunderson, Leonard L.; Tepper, Joel E.
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1296
ISBN-13: 9780443076091
Subjects: Cancer -- Radiotherapy.; Neoplasms -- radiotherapy.; Stralingsbeschadiging.; Oncologie.; Bestralingstherapie.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Biologic basis of radiation oncology; title: Ch. 2. Molecular and cellular biology; title: Ch. 3. Radiation oncology physics; title: Ch. 4. Surgical principles; title: Ch. 5. Principles of chemotherapy; title: Ch. 6. Interaction of chemotherapy and radiation; title: Ch. 7. Dose-response modifiers in radiation therapy; title: Ch. 8. Statistics and clinical trials; title: Ch. 9. Brachytherapy; title: Ch. 10. Intraoperative irradiation; title: Ch. 11. Sterotactic irradiation: linear accelerator and gamma knife; title: Ch. 12. Particle radiation therapy; title: Ch. 13. Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy; title: Ch. 14. Hyperthermia; title: Ch. 15. Radioimmunotherapy; title: Ch. 16. Palliation of metastases: bone and spinal cord; title: Ch. 17. Low-grade gliomas; title: Ch. 18. High-grade gliomas; title: Ch. 19. Pituitary tumors; title: Ch. 20. Spinal cord tumors; title: Ch. 21. Orbital tumors; title: Ch. 22. Oral cavity cancers; title: Ch. 23. Oropharyngeal cancer; title: Ch. 24. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; title: Ch. 25. Laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer; title: Ch. 26. Sinonasal cancer; title: Ch. 27. Salivary gland cancer; title: Ch. 28. Thyroid cancer; title: Ch. 29. Management of the neck and the unknown primary site; title: Ch. 30. Cutaneous carcinoma and melanoma; title: Ch. 31. Small cell lung cancer; title: Ch. 32. Non-small cell lung cancer; title: Ch. 33. Esophageal cancer; title: Ch. 34. Stomach cancer; title: Ch. 35. Pancreatic cancer; title: Ch. 36. Hepatobiliary tumors; title: Ch. 37. Colon cancer; title: Ch. 38. Rectal cancer; title: Ch. 39. Anal carcinoma; title: Ch. 40. Prostate cancer; title: Ch. 41. Bladder cancer; title: Ch. 42. Testicular cancer; title: Ch. 43. Kidney and ureteral carcinoma; title: Ch. 44. Cervical cancer; title: Ch. 45. Endometrial cancer; title: Ch. 46. Vulvar and vaginal carcinoma; title: ch. 47. Ovarian cancer; title: Ch. 48. Breast cancer: noninvasive, stages I and II; title: Ch. 49. Breast cancer: stages T3 and T4; title: Ch. 50. Soft tissue sarcomas; title: Ch. 51. Central nervous system tumors in childhood; title: Ch. 52. Pediatric soft tissue sarcomas; title: Ch. 53. Pediatric sarcomas of bone; title: Ch. 54. Wilms' tumor; title: Ch. 55. Retinoblastoma; title: Ch. 56. Neuroblastoma; title: Ch. 57. Leukemias and lymphomas in children; title: Ch. 58. Rare tumors in children; title: Ch. 59. Hodgkin's Disease; title: Ch. 60. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; title: Ch. 61. Multiple myeloma and other plasma cell neoplasms; title: Ch. 62. Bone marrow transplantation for hematologic malignancies; title: Ch. 63. Mycosis fungoides.