External Beam Therapy

2. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-969656-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 870 g

Reihe: Radiotherapy in Practice

External beam therapy is the most common form of radiotherapy, delivering ionizing radiation such as high-energy x-rays, gamma rays or electron beams directly into the location of the patient's tumour. External Beam Therapy, Second Edition is an essential, practical guide to the use of external beam radiotherapy, highlighting the rapid technological advances made in recent years. It provides a firm background to the physics of external beam radiotherapy,
taking the reader through the basic principles and discussing issues such as quality assurance.

Experts within each field then expand upon techniques for treatment delivery within each anatomical site, covering indications, treatment and planning. This new edition also includes information on Stereotactic radiotherapy and coverage on the physics of proton beams. External Beam Therapy, Second Edition is an invaluable companion to trainees in medical physics, therapeutic radiography, and clinical or radiation oncology.

ABOUT THE SERIES:

Radiotherapy remains the major non-surgical treatment modality for the management of malignant disease. It is based on the application of the principles of applied physics, radiobiology, and tumour biology to clinical practice. Each volume in this series takes the reader through the basic principles of the use of ionising radiation and then develops this by individual sites. This series of practical handbooks are aimed at physicians both training and practising in radiotherapy, as well as
medical physicists, dosimetrists, radiographers and senior nurses.

Zielgruppe

Oncologists, radiation physicists, medical physicists, dosimetrists, radiographers and senior nurses, plus anyone training in or practicing radiotherapy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoskin, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Bildgebende Verfahren, Nuklearmedizin, Strahlentherapie Nuklearmedizin, PET, Radiotherapie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Onkologie, Krebsforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Peter Hoskin: Introduction
2: Karen Venables: Basic physics
3: Carl Rowbottom: Treatment delivery, IMRT and IGRT
4: Ellen Donovan, Charlotte Coles, Charlotte Westbury and John Yarnold: Breast
5: Sara C Erridge, Elizabeth Toy and Sorcha Campbell: Radiotherapy for thoracic tumours
6: Stephen Faulk: Upper GI
7a: Rob Glynne-Jones, Mark Harrison and David Sebag-Montefiore: Rectal cancer
7b: David Sebag-Montefiore, Mark Harrison and Robert Glynne-Jones: Squamous carcinoma of the anus
8a: S Hafeez, A Creak and DP Dearnaley: External Beam Radiotherapy for prostate cancer
8b: Nicholas James, Elizabeth Southgate and Anjali Zarkar: Bladder cancer
8c: Peter Hoskin: Testis
8d: Peter Hoskin: Penis
9a: Melanie Powell and Alexandra Taylor: Uterus
9b: Peter Hoskin: Vulva and vagina
10: Mary K Gospodarowicz, Richard W Tsang, David C Hodgson and Peter Hoskin: Lymphomas
11: Neil G Burnet, Fiona Harris, Raj Jena, Kate E Burton and Sarah J Jefferies: CNS tumours
12: Christopher Nutting and Michele Saunders: Head and neck cancer
13: C Corner and Peter Hoskin: Skin cancer
14: Anna Cassoni: Sarcomas of soft tissue and bone
15: Roger E Taylor: Principles of paediatric radiation oncology
16: Peter Hoskin: Radiotherapy planning for metastatic disease
17: Patricia Diez and Edwin GA Aird: Quality assurance in radiotherapy

Über Autor(innen)

Hoskin, Peter
Peter Hoskin qualified at the Royal Free Hospital and, after junior posts in general medicine in London, trained in clinical oncology at the Royal Marsden Hospital. He currently has a busy clinical practice focusing on urological and gynaecological malignancies and lymphomas. He also directs a research programme through UCL developing and evaluating functional imaging in oncological practice. Professor Hoskin is series editor of the OUP series, Radiotherapy in Practice.

Peter Hoskin qualified at the Royal Free Hospital and, after junior posts in general medicine in London, trained in clinical oncology at the Royal Marsden Hospital. He currently has a busy clinical practice focusing on urological and gynaecological malignancies and lymphomas. He also directs a research programme through UCL developing and evaluating functional imaging in oncological practice. Professor Hoskin is series editor of the OUP series, Radiotherapy in
Practice.