Clinical radiation oncology
By: senior editors, Leonard L. Gunderson, Joel E. Tepper.
Contributors: Gunderson, Leonard L.; Tepper, Joel E.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1827
ISBN-13: 9780443068409
Subjects: Neoplasms -- radiotherapy; Radiation Oncology -- methods; Radiotherapy; Oncology
Description: Provides comprehensive, authoritative information available for treating patients with cancer. Featuring a multidisciplinary perspective, the text examines the therapeutic management of specific disease sites based on both single-modality and combined-modality approaches providing you with the well-rounded, cutting-edge guidance you need to offer the most effective treatments. A consistent chapter format throughout paired with an all-new full-color design makes reference fast and easy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Scientific foundations of radiation oncology. Biologic basis of radiation oncology; title: Elaine M. Zeman. Molecular and cellular biology; title: Mary Ann Stevenson and Stuart K. Calderwood. Dose response modifiers in radiation oncology; title: Michael R. Horsman ... [et al.] Interaction of chemotherapy and radiation; title: James A. Bonner, Yolanda I. Garces, and Donald J. Buchsbaum. Biologics and interactions with radiation; title: Carolyn I. Sartor, David Raben, and Bert O'Neil. Radiation oncology physics; title: J. Daniel Bourland. Surgical principles; title: M. Kevin Barry and John H. Donohue. Principles of chemotherapy; title: Lawrence S. Blaszkowsky, Jeffrey G. Supko, and Bruce A. Chabner. Imaging in oncology; title: Julia R. Fielding, Michael Burke, and Valerie S. Jewells. Nuclear medicine; title: Amir H. Khandani and Arif Sheikh. Health services research in radiation oncology; title: William J. Mackillop. Statistics and clinical trials; title: Harry Samuel Wieand and John L. Bryant -- Techniques and modalities. Brachytherapy; title: Alvaro A. Martinez. Conformal therapy: treatment planning, treatment delivery, and clinical results; title: Benedick A. Fraass and Avraham Eisbruch. Intraoperative irradiation; title: Brian G. Czito and Christopher G. Willett. Stereotactic irradiation: linear accelerator and gamma knife; title: Deepak Khuntia ... [et al.] Total body irradiation; title: Brenda Shank. Charged particle radiotherapy; title: William P. Levin and Thomas F. DeLaney. Neutron radiotherapy; title: Jason K. Rockhill and George E. Laramore. Hyperthermia; title: Mark Dewhirst ... [et al.] Targeted radionuclide therapy; title: Ruby F. Meredith, Jeffrey Y.C. Wong, and Susan J. Knox. Palliation of metastases: bone, spinal cord, brain, liver; title: Arthur T. Porter and Marc David -- Disease sites. Central nervous system tumors. Overview; title: Edward G. Shaw, Waldemar Debinski, and Mike E. Robbins. Low-grade gliomas; title: Paul D. Brown and Edward G. Shaw. High-grade gliomas; title: John B. Fiveash ... [et al.] Meningioma, ependymoma, and other adult brain tumors; title: Glenn Bauman ... [et al.] Pituitary tumors; title: Mahesh A. Varia ... [et al.] Spinal cord tumors; title: Volker W. Stieber and Edward G. Shaw. Orbital, ocular, and optic nerve tumors; title: Kathryn McConnell Greven and Craig M. Greven. Head and neck tumors. Overview; title: K. Kian Ang. Oral cavity; title: Russell W. Hinerman ... [et al.] Oropharyngeal cancer; title: William H. Morrison, Adam S. Garden, and K. Kian Ang. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; title: Roger Ove, Robert L. Foote, and James A. Bonner. Larynx and hypopharynx cancer; title: Adam S. Garden, William H. Morrison, and K. Kian Ang. Sinonasal cancer; title: Anesa Ahamad ... [et al.] Salivary gland cancer; title: Robert L. Foote ... [et al.] Thyroid cancer; title: Ian D. Hay and Ivy A. Petersen. Unknown head and neck primary site; title: William M. Mendenhall, Anthony A. Mancuso, and Douglas B. Villaret. Management of the neck; title: Vincent Grégoire ... [et al.] Cutaneous carcinoma; title: K. Kian Ang and Randal S. Weber. Malignant melanoma; title: Matthew T. Ballo and K. Kian Ang. Thoracic neoplasms. Overview; title: L. Chinsoo Cho and Hak Choy. Small cell lung cancer; title: Steven E. Schild and Walter J. Curran, Jr. Non-small-cell lung cancer; title: Henry Wagner, Jr. Cancer of the esophagus; title: A. William Blackstock. Uncommon thoracic malignancies; title: Tony Y. Eng ... [et al.] Gastrointestinal tumors. Overview; title: Joel E. Tepper and Leonard L. Gunderson. Stomach cancer; title: Leonard L. Gunderson, Joel E. Tepper, and Felipe A. Calvo. Pancreatic cancer; title: Ross A. Abrams and Julia Choo. Hepatobiliary tumors; title: Edgar Ben-Josef and Theodore S. Lawrence. Colon cancer; title: Brian G. Czito and Christopher G. Willett. Rectal cancer; title: Claus Rödel, Vincenzo Valentini, and Bruce D. Minsky. Anal carcinoma; title: Michael G. Haddock and James A. Martenson, Jr. Genitoturinary tumors. Overview; title: Anthony L. Zietman. Prostate cancer; title: Deborah A. Kuban ... [et al.] Bladder cancer; title: Anthony L. Zietman and William U. Shipley. Testicular cancer; title: Padraig R. Warde, Jeremy F.G. Sturgeon, and Mary K. Gospodarowicz. Kidney and ureteral carcinoma; title: Steven J. Buskirk ... [et al.] Penile cancer; title: Juanita Crook and Jean-Jacques Mazeron. Gynecologic tumors. Overview; title: Gillian M. Thomas. Cervical cancer; title: Wui-Jin Koh and David H. Moore. Endometrial cancer; title: Carien L. Creutzberg. Vulvar and vaginal carcinoma; title: Anthony H. Russell. Ovarian cancer; title: Higinia Cardenes and Jeanne Schilder. Breast cancer. Overview; title: Jay R. Harris. Noninvasive breast cancer; title: Douglas W. Arthur and Frank A. Vicini. Breast cancer: stages I and II; title: Abram Recht. Breast cancer: stages III and IV; title: Thomas A. Buchholz, Massimo Cristofanilli, and Eric A. Strom. Sarcoma and benign disease. Soft tissue sarcoma; title: Brian O'Sullivan ... [et al.] Nonmalignant diseases; title: Michael Heinrich Seegenschmidt. Childhood cancers. Overview; title: Larry E. Kun. Central nervous system tumors in children; title: Thomas E. Merchant. Pediatric soft tissue sarcomas; title: Laurie E. Blach and Alberto S. Pappo. Pediatric sarcomas of bone; title: Andreas Schuck. Wilms' tumor; title: John Kalapurakal and Patrick R.M. Thomas. Retinoblastoma; title: Robert S. Lavey. Neuroblastoma; title: Suzanne Wolden. Pediatric leukemias and lymphomas; title: Karen J. Marcus. Pediatric Hodgkin's lymphoma; title: Melissa M. Hudson and Louis S. Constine. Rare pediatric tumors; title: Ori Shokek and Moody D. Wharam, Jr. Lymphoma and hematologic malignancies. Overview; title: Andrea K. Ng and Peter Mauch. Hodgkin's disease; title: Andrea K. Ng, Lawrence Weiss, and Arnold Freedman. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; title: Richard W. Tsang and Mary K. Gospodarowicz.  Multiple myeloma and other plasma cell neoplasms; title: Morie A. Gertz and Michael G. Chen. Mycosis fungoides; title: Benjamin D. Smith, Glenn Jones, and Lynn D. Wilson.