Overview
- An up-to-date concise handbook that will be of great assistance to the clinician in the implementation of accelerated partial breast irradiation
- Extensively revised and updated since the first edition to take account of the remarkable progress in the field
- Seven chapters introduce entirely new material not covered in the first edition and all other chapters have been substantially modified or rewritten
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) is being rapidly introduced into the clinical management of early breast cancer. APBI, in fact, encompasses a number of different techniques and approaches that include brachytherapy, intraoperative, and external beam techniques. There is currently no single source that describes these techniques and their clinical implementation. This text is a concise handbook designed to assist the clinician in the implementation of APBI. This includes a review of the principles that underlie APBI, a practical and detailed description of each technique for APBI, a review of current clinical results of APBI, and a review of the incidence and management of treatment related complications.
Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition:
“This second edition progresses naturally from background on accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) and the basic science related to this treatment … . The target audience includes radiation oncology providers: physicians, trainees, radiation nurse practitioners, and students. It also could be of service to other specialists such as surgeons and medical oncologists who care for breast cancer patients. The authors are nationally renowned for their expertise on this subject. … This is an excellent textbook and resource for radiation oncologists in practice and in training.” (Ralph Ermoian, Doody’s Review Service, October, 2010)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation
Book Subtitle: Techniques and Clinical Implementation
Editors: David E. Wazer, Douglas W. Arthur, Frank A. Vicini
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88006-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-88006-6Published: 11 August 2009
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 436
Number of Illustrations: 155 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Radiotherapy, Oncology, Diagnostic Radiology