Overview
- Provides comprehensive guidance on contouring and treatment planning for gastrointestinal cancers
- Covers both standard and advanced radiation therapy techniques
- Represents a unified source of clinical data that may drive treatment recommendations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This up-to-date, hands-on manual offers clear guidance on contouring and treatment planning for both standard and advanced radiation therapy in patients with gastrointestinal cancers and simultaneously draws together the available relevant clinical data for each type of cancer with a view to driving treatment recommendations. The full range of malignancies is covered, including esophageal, gastric, pancreatic, hepatic, biliary, colon, rectal, and anal cancers and pelvic recurrences. Additional chapters are devoted to stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) to the liver for metastatic disease.
The management of gastrointestinal cancers with radiation therapy has become increasingly complex. Specifically, the emergence of new techniques such as SBRT and intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) has further increased the need to understand how to contour targets and organs at risk, how to perform safe treatment planning, and when to apply these technologies. In this context, Radiation Therapy for Gastrointestinal Cancers represents an ideal reference for both established clinical radiation oncologists and radiation oncology residents.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Prajnan Das is Professor of Radiation Oncology and Section Chief of the Gastrointestinal Radiation Oncology Section at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He serves as Program Director of the Radiation Oncology Residency and Fellowship. Dr. Das graduated with B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University, and completed his M.D. degree at Harvard Medical School, as well as his M.P.H. degree at the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his residency at the Harvard Joint Center for Radiation Therapy. He has written over 120 peer-reviewed publications, and many invited articles and textbook chapters. He has served on many national panels and committees on the treatment of gastrointestinal cancers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Radiation Therapy for Gastrointestinal Cancers
Editors: Theodore Hong, Prajnan Das
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43115-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43113-0Published: 22 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82742-1Published: 20 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43115-4Published: 13 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 245
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 48 illustrations in colour
Topics: Radiotherapy, Oncology, Gastroenterology