Editors:
- Easily accessible handbook that summarizes published data on efficacy of different dose fractionations and the dose/volume/outcome data for relevant normal tissues and organs under different fractionation schemes
- Presents biological rationale and clinical data for use of hypofractionated radiation therapy in treatment of various cancers
- Serves as valuable resource through analysis of different dosing schedules used in hypofractionated radiation therapy, effect of each regimen on cancer control, and effects of therapeutic schedules on normal tissues and organs
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Benign Central Nervous System Tumors
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Front Matter
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Malignant Central Nervous System Tumors
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Head and Neck Tumors
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About this book
Reviews
“This book is an excellent review of the literature supporting the usage of hypofractionated radiotherapy. It is well organized and presents in tabular format important indications for hypofractionated radiotherapy. Of the readership of Neurosurgery, CNS radiation oncologists, brain and spine tumor neurosurgeons, and radiation oncology residents would particularly benefit from the expertise provided in this review. Community radiation oncologists would also find this review quite useful given the relative novelty of hypofractionated radiotherapy … .” (Michael Chan, Neurosurgery, Vol. 85 (3), September, 2019)
“The book provides a history of radiobiology and hypofractionation, giving a concise background of how both radiation therapy and the understandings of radiobiology have co-evolved before discussing further the physics behind hypofractionation and SRS/SBRT. … the book is very well presented and is designed to be a ‘handbook’ that is both relevant and accessible, with current information enabling the reader to locate and utilise practical and supported data.” (Craig Jones, RAD Magazine, March, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Radiation Oncology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, USA
Orit Kaidar-Person
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Department of Radiation Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Ronald Chen
About the editors
Oncology Institute, Radiation Oncology and Neuro-Oncology Unit,Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
Ronald Chen, MD, MPH Department of Radiation Oncology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine 101 Manning Drive, CB 7512 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Lawrence B. Marks, MD Department of Radiation Oncology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine 1043 NC Clinical Cancer Building Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hypofractionated and Stereotactic Radiation Therapy
Book Subtitle: A Practical Guide
Editors: Orit Kaidar-Person, Ronald Chen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92802-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92800-5Published: 15 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92802-9Published: 31 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 406
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Radiotherapy, Oncology