Hadronic radiotherapy uses particle beams to treat tumours located critical body structures and tumours that respond poorly to conventional photon and electron beam radiotherapy. This is an overview of the field and a discussion on the fundamental basis of particle physics and radiobiology.
Planning is a critical stage of radiotherapy. Careful consideration of the complex variables involved and critical assessment of the techniques available are fundamental to good and effective practice. This book explains planning in a practical manner and is useful for the trainee raditation oncologist and radiographer.
This book deals with the biological aspects of radiotherapy. It seeks to present, in a concise and interesting way, the main ideas and significant scientific developments that underlie current attempts to improve the radiotherapeutic management of cancer.
The use of permanent radioactive implants (125I or 103Pd seeds) to treat selected localized prostate cancer patients increased all over the world over the last fifteen years. This title reviews the data concerning the dose received by the persons approaching the patients after the implantation. It demonstrates the benefit of brachytherapy.
Suitable for medical students, residents, and juniors attending physicians in radiation oncology, this title helps professionals review the topics in clinical radiation oncology. It covers the sites and cancer types treated with radiotherapy. It focuses on treatment recommendations and the evidence behind them.
This book offers a detailed examination of the technological basis of radiation therapy. It is jointly written by North American and European authors, which broadens the contents and increases the book's applicability in daily practice throughout the world.
Focusing on thoracic malignancies, this book addresses the multi-disciplinary nature of the care of these tumors. It includes chapters on lung cancer, esophageal cancer, and Thymomas covering the vast majority of thoracic tumors. It also provides reviews and assessments of the data and its implications for the clinical practice.
This book reviews radiotherapy physics and radiobiology, from the basics to major aspects of radiotherapy and radiobiology including apparatus used in the treatment process, conventional treatment and unconventional treatment methods, dosimetry and more.
Comprises three sections covering the useful aspects of radiation physics, radiobiology, and clinical radiation oncology. This title describes radiation treatment regimens appropriate for the main cancer sites and tumor types. It includes more than 350 illustrations, most of them in color.
Discussing the diagnosis, therapy and prognosis in one self-contained text, this volume presents a broad view of the CNS tumor and brain tumor imaging fields of research in Europe. The genetics of malignant brain tumors and gene amplification are explained, as well as standard and new imaging modalities.
In its 2nd edition, this book surveys imaging techniques used for evaluation of head and neck neoplasms, both before and after therapy. All anatomic areas of the head and neck are covered, and the impact of imaging on patient management is discussed in detail.
Conformal radiation therapy presents oncologists with a challenge because of the necessary balance between increasing the radiation dose to target tissues and controlling it for organs at risk. The data presented should help with appropriate decisions with the most frequent tumor types and sites.
Presents a textbook of radiotherapy and related radiation physics and oncology for use by all those concerned with the uses of radiation and cytotoxic drugs in the treatment of patients with malignant disease. This book covers underlying principles of physics and deals with radiotherapy and oncology.
Offers a multidisciplinary look at the presentation of uniform treatment philosophies for cancer patients emphasizing the 'treat for cure' philosophy. This book helps to explore the implementation of fresh imaging techniques to locate and treat tumors, molecularly targeted therapies, and types of treatment delivery.
* Focuses on development, preclinical, and clinical evaluation of novel targeted radiopharmaceuticals and -therapeutics for cancer * Offers a step-by-step description, from beginning (conjugation chemistry, antibody production) to final product (clinical trials, etc.