Practical Radiotherapy Planning:

✍ Scribed by Stephen Morris, Tom Roques, Shahreen Ahmad, Suat Loo

Publisher: CRC Press
Tongue: English
Leaves: 450
Edition: 5
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Good and effective treatment in radiotherapy requires careful consideration of the complex variables involved as well as critical assessment of the techniques. This new edition of an established classic takes into account advances in imaging and treatment delivery and reflects the current state of the art in the practice of radiotherapy, emphasizing the underlying principles of treatment that can be applied for conventional, conformal, and novel treatments.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
1. What You Need to Know before Planning Radiotherapy Treatment
2. Principles of Radiotherapy Planning
3. Radiobiology and Treatment Planning
4. Organs at Risk and Tolerance of Normal Tissues
5. Principles of Brachytherapy
6. Emergency and Palliative Radiotherapy
7. Skin
8. Head and Neck: General Considerations
9. Lip, Ear, Nose and Treatment of the Neck in Skin Cancer
10. Oral Cavity
11. Oropharynx Cancer and Unknown Primary Tumours of the Head and Neck
12. Hypopharynx
13. Nasopharynx
14. Larynx
15. Salivary Glands
16. Sinuses: Maxilla, Ethmoid and Nasal Cavity Tumours
17. Orbit
18. Central Nervous System
19. Thyroid and Thymoma
20. Lung
21. Mesothelioma
22. Breast
23. Haematological Malignancies
24. Oesophagus and Stomach
25. Pancreas and Liver
26. Rectum
27. Anus
28. Prostate
29. Bladder
30. Testis
31. Penis
32. Cervix
33. Uterus
34. Vagina
35. Vulva
36. Sarcoma
37. Paediatric Tumours
38. Radiotherapy for Benign Disease
Index

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