Clinical radiation oncology

With thorough updates throughout, Clinical Radiation Oncology provides the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date information available for treating patients with cancer. From a multidisciplinary perspective, this new edition, edited by Drs. Leonard L. Gunderson and Joel E. Tepper, examin...

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Ďalší autori: Gunderson, Leonard L., Tepper, Joel E., Bogart, Jeffrey A.
Médium: E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Fyzický popis:1 online resource (xxiii, 1638 p.) ill. (some col.)
Vydavateľské údaje: Philadelphia, Pa. ; London Saunders/Elsevier c2012.
ISBN:9781455726035 (electronic bk.)
1455726036 (electronic bk.)
Vydanie:3rd ed.
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On-line prístup:EBSCOhost
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  • SECTION I. SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY
  • Part A. RADIOBIOLOGY
  • Chapter 1. Biological Basis of Radiation Oncology
  • Chapter 2. Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • Chapter 3. Dose Response Modifiers in Radiation Oncology
  • Chapter 4. Interaction of Chemotherapy and Radiation
  • Chapter 5. Biologics and Interactions with Radiation
  • Part B. PHYSICS
  • Chapter 6. Radiation Oncology Physics
  • Part C. RELATED CANCER DISCIPLINES
  • Chapter 7. Surgical Principles
  • Chapter 8. Principles of Chemotherapy
  • Chapter 9. Imaging in Oncology
  • Chapter 10. Nuclear Medicine
  • Chapter 11. Health Services Research in Radiation Oncology: Toward Achieving the Achievable for Patients with Cancer
  • Chapter 12. Statistics and Clinical Trials
  • SECTION II. TECHNIQUES AND MODALITIES
  • Chapter 13. Brachytherapy
  • Chapter 14. Conformal Therapy: Treatment Planning, Treatment Delivery, and Clinical Results
  • Chapter 15. Intraoperative Irradiation
  • Chapter 16. Stereotactic Irradiation: Linear Accelerator and Gamma Knife
  • Chapter 17. Total Body Irradiation
  • Chapter 18. Charged Particle Radiotherapy
  • Chapter 19. Neutron Radiotherapy
  • Chapter 20. Hyperthermia
  • Chapter 21. Targeted Radionuclide Therapy
  • Chapter 22. Palliation of Metastases: Bone, Spinal Cord, Brain, Liver
  • SECTION III. DISEASE SITES
  • Part A. CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMORS OVERVIEW
  • Chapter 23. Low-Grade Gliomas
  • Chapter 24. High-Grade Gliomas
  • Chapter 25. Meningioma, Ependymoma and Other Adult Brain Tumors
  • Chapter 26. Pituitary Tumors
  • Chapter 27. Spinal Tumors
  • Chapter 28. Orbital, Ocular, and Optic Nerve Tumors
  • Part B. HEAD AND NECK TUMORS OVERVIEW
  • Chapter 29. Oral Cavity
  • Chapter 30. Oropharyngeal Cancer
  • Chapter 31. Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
  • Chapter 32. Larynx and Hypopharnyx Cancer
  • Chapter 33. Sinonasal Cancer
  • Chapter 34. Salivary Gland Cancer
  • Chapter 35. Thyroid Cancer
  • Chapter 36. Squamous Cell Carcinoma Metastatic to the Neck from an Unknown Head and Neck Primary Site
  • Chapter 37. Management of the Neck
  • Chapter 38. Cutaneous Carcinoma
  • Chapter 39. Melanoma
  • Part C. THORACIC NEOPLASMS OVERVIEW
  • Chapter 40. Small Cell Lung Cancer
  • Chapter 41. Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
  • Chapter 42. Cancer of the Esophagus
  • Chapter 43. Uncommon Thoracic Malignancies
  • Part D. GASTROINTESTINAL TUMORS OVERVIEW
  • Chapter 44. Stomach Cancer
  • Chapter 45. Pancreatic Cancer
  • Chapter 46. Hepatobiliary Tumors
  • Chapter 47. Colon Cancer
  • Chapter 48. Rectal Cancer
  • Chapter 49. Anal Carcinoma
  • Part E. GENITOURINARY TUMORS OVERVIEW
  • Chapter 50. Prostate Cancer
  • Chapter 51. Bladder Cancer
  • Chapter 52. Testicular Cancer
  • Chapter 53. Kidney and Ureteral Carcinoma
  • Chapter 54. Penile Cancer
  • Part F. GYNECOLOGIC TUMORS OVERVIEW
  • Chapter 55. Cervical Cancer
  • Chapter 56. Endometrial Cancer
  • Chapter 57. Vulvar and Vaginal Carcinoma
  • Chapter 58. Ovarian Cancer
  • Part G. BREAST CANCER OVERVIEW
  • Chapter 59. Noninvasive Breast Cancer
  • Chapter 60. Breast Cancer: Stages I and II
  • Chapter 61. Breast Cancer: Stages T3 and T4 Locally Advanced and Inflammatory Breast Cancer and Postmastectomy Radiation Therapy
  • Part H. SARCOMA and BENIGN DISEASE
  • Chapter 62. Soft Tissue Sarcoma
  • Chapter 63. Radiotherapy of Non-malignant Diseases
  • Part I. CHILDHOOD CANCERS OVERVIEW
  • Chapter 64. Central Nervous System Tumors in Childhood
  • Chapter 65. Pediatric Soft Tissue Sarcomas
  • Chapter 66. Pediatric Sarcomas of Bone
  • Chapter 67. Wilm's Tumor
  • Chapter 68. Retinoblastoma
  • Chapter 69. Neuroblastoma
  • Chapter 70. Leukemias and Lymphomas in Children
  • Chapter 71. Hodgkins
  • Chapter 72. Rare Tumors in Children
  • Part J. LYMPHOMA AND HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES OVERVIEW
  • Chapter 73. Hodgkin's Disease
  • Chapter 74. Non-Hodgkin's Disease
  • Chapter 75. Multiple Myeloma and other Plasma Cell Neoplasms
  • Chapter 76. Mycosis Fungoides
  • INDEX.