Lung Cancer Imaging

✍ Scribed by Lee Wheless B.S., James Brashears M.D. (auth.), James G. Ravenel (eds.)

• Publisher: Humana Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• Series: Contemporary Medical Imaging
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

While specialists often guide the care to lung cancer patients, it is often a general radiologist who is left to interpret studies that impact patient care and management. Lung Cancer Imaging provides a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis, staging and overview of the management of lung cancer relevant to practicing radiologists so that they can better understand the decision making issues and provide more directed and useful communication to the treating physicians. It Primary Care physicians will also find this book valuable to understand the relevant issues that they face when one of their patients is being treated for lung cancer.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Epidemiology of Lung Cancer....Pages 1-15
Classification of Lung Tumors....Pages 17-22
Screening for Lung Cancer....Pages 23-38
Assessment of the Solitary Pulmonary Nodule: An Overview....Pages 39-48
Imaging in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer....Pages 49-67
Preoperative Evaluation for Lung Cancer Resection....Pages 69-78
Small Cell Carcinoma....Pages 79-88
Invasive Staging of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer....Pages 89-98
Surgical Treatment for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer....Pages 99-109
Radiofrequency Ablation of Primary Lung Cancer....Pages 111-123
Systemic Therapy for Lung Cancer....Pages 125-135
Radiotherapy in Lung Cancer....Pages 137-152
Imaging the Chest Following Radiation Therapy....Pages 153-168
Imaging Following Treatment of Lung Cancer....Pages 169-179
Chemotherapy-Related Lung Injury....Pages 181-188
Back Matter....Pages 189-194

✦ Subjects

Radiotherapy; Imaging / Radiology; Oncology