Lower gastrointestinal malignancies
By: guest editors, Edgar Ben-Josef, Albert Koong
Series: Radiation medicine rounds -- v. 1, issue 2; Radiation medicine rounds -- v. 1, issue 2.
Publisher: Demos Medical; Demos Medical Publishing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9781933864921
Subjects: Methods; Cancer; Neoadjuvant Therapy; Radiotherapy; Drug therapy; Treatment Outcome; Rectum; Adjuvant Radiotherapy; Rectal Neoplasms
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The evolution of modern systemic agents for colorectal cancer / Gregory Heestand, Pamela Kunz, and George A. Fisher; title: Neoadjuvant treatment of rectal cancer / Christopher G. Willett and Brian G. Czito; title: Patient selection for adjuvant therapy of rectal cancer / Stephen L. Harris and Joel E. Tepper; title: Intensity modulated radiation therapy in the treatment of rectal cancer : current evidence and directions for the future / Michael C. Garofalo and Tracey E Schefter; title: Short course versus long course preoperative radiation therapy in rectal cancer / Amanda Clarke, James D. Brierley, and John Kim; title: Management of T1/T2 rectal cancers with transanal excision and radiation therapy / Niraj Mehta, Daniel T. Chang, and Percy Lee; title: Management of patients with distal rectal cancer and complete clinical response to neoadjuvant chemoradiation / Angelita Habr-Gama ... [et al.]; title: Predictors of outcome in rectal cancer / Pierre Bohanes and Heinz-Josef Lenz; title: Management of anal canal cancer : current chemoradiation strategies and investigations into intensity-modulated radiation therapy / Karyn A. Goodman, Tina Dasgupta, and Lisa A. Kachnic; title: Predictors of outcome for anal cancer / Prajnan Das and Christopher H. Crane; title: Management of anal dysplasia / Carlos Eduardo Pineda and Mark Lane Welton.