
Radiotherapy Planning
Thankamma Ajithkumar(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 21. March 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
624 pages
978-0-19-872269-4 (ISBN)
Description
Radiotherapy Planning is the new title in the Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Oncology series. It provides a comprehensive guide to modern radiotherapy practice, firmly based on unchanging principles. The author discusses advanced radiotherapy techniques as well as simpler field-based arrangements, so that this handbook can be used globally for clinical practice, including countries with limited resources.
The site-specific chapters are structured in two parts. Firstly, current treatment approaches are discussed, with particular attention to the relevant underlying principles to ensure it remains appropriate and useful despite changes in other cancer treatments. The second part of each chapter discusses the most important clinical trials which have informed the current approaches to treatment at the time of publication.
In addition, there is a section on imaging features of different tumours, which is useful for clinicians to choose appropriate images for target volume delineation.
This handbook will give an accessible introduction to new trainees in the specialty, and it will continue to encourage in all clinical oncologists logical thinking, the ability to ask challenging questions, appropriate analysis of outcomes, and delivery of treatment assessed according to its clinical benefit to patients and its academic rigour.
The site-specific chapters are structured in two parts. Firstly, current treatment approaches are discussed, with particular attention to the relevant underlying principles to ensure it remains appropriate and useful despite changes in other cancer treatments. The second part of each chapter discusses the most important clinical trials which have informed the current approaches to treatment at the time of publication.
In addition, there is a section on imaging features of different tumours, which is useful for clinicians to choose appropriate images for target volume delineation.
This handbook will give an accessible introduction to new trainees in the specialty, and it will continue to encourage in all clinical oncologists logical thinking, the ability to ask challenging questions, appropriate analysis of outcomes, and delivery of treatment assessed according to its clinical benefit to patients and its academic rigour.
Reviews / Votes
[...] the inclusion of technical facets of clinical care including treatment planning give this book a certain appeal. This is particularly true for a trainee or sub-specialized practitioner seeking to gain a quick appreciation for basic tenets behind clinical care in areas with which one might be less familiar. From this perspective, I expect this book to be a useful resource in my own library. * Mark D. Hurwitz, MD(New York Medical College) * [...] the inclusion of technical facets of clinical care including treatment planning give this book a certain appeal. This is particularly true for a trainee or sub-specialized practitioner seeking to gain a quick appreciation for basic tenets behind clinical care in areas with which one might be less familiar. From this perspective, I expect this book to be a useful resource in my own library. * Mark D. Hurwitz, MD(New York Medical College) *More details
Series
Edition
1
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 179 mm
Width: 104 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
420 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-872269-4 (9780198722694)
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Person
Thankamma Ajithkumar is a Consultant Clinical Oncologist at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK. He undertook a research fellowship in the Royal Marsden Hospital, London followed by speciality training in Clinical Oncology in the Eastern Deanery. His research interest is to optimize the combination of radiotherapy with novel agents in paediatric brain tumours and hepato-pancreatico-biliary tumours to improve clinical outcomes. He is Chair of the European Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOPE) Brain Tumour Radiotherapy and Germ Cell tumour groups. He is also the Editor in Chief of Clinical Oncology, the official Journal of Royal College of Radiologists.
Author
Consultant in Clinical Oncology; Affiliated Associate ProfessorConsultant in Clinical Oncology; Affiliated Assistant Professor, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust; University of Cambridge, UK
Content
1: Principles of radiotherapy
2: Practical radiotherapy
3: Radiotherapy side-effects and their management
4: Skin cancers
5: Central nervous system tumours
6: Head and neck cancer
7: Breast cancer
8: Thoracic cancer
9: Gastrointestinal cancer
10: Urological cancer
11: Gynaecological cancer
12: Sarcomas
13: Haematological malignancies
14: Paediatric tumours
15: Emergency and palliative care
16: Oligometastatic and oligo-progressive disease
2: Practical radiotherapy
3: Radiotherapy side-effects and their management
4: Skin cancers
5: Central nervous system tumours
6: Head and neck cancer
7: Breast cancer
8: Thoracic cancer
9: Gastrointestinal cancer
10: Urological cancer
11: Gynaecological cancer
12: Sarcomas
13: Haematological malignancies
14: Paediatric tumours
15: Emergency and palliative care
16: Oligometastatic and oligo-progressive disease