Clinical radiation oncology. (©2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Radiation oncology
• Further Information: Note: Senior editors, Leonard L. Gunderson, Joel E. Tepper ; associate editors, Jeffrey A. Bogart [and others].
• Other Names: Gunderson, Leonard L; Tepper, Joel E; Bogart, Jeffrey A
• Contents: 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.
• Edition: 3rd ed
• Publisher Details: Philadelphia, Pa London : Saunders/Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 1638 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 616.9940642; Cancer -- Radiotherapy; Neoplasms -- radiotherapy; Radiation Oncology -- methods; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer; MEDICAL -- Oncology; Cancer -- Radiotherapy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781455726035; 1455726036; 9781437716375; 1437716377
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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