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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.
List of contents
Basics of Chemotherapy.- Esophageal Cancer: Clinical Data.- Esophageal Cancer: Contouring and treatment planning.- Gastric Cancer: Clinical Data.- Gastric Cancer: Contouring and treatment planning.- Pancreatic Cancer: Clinical Data.- Pancreatic Cancer: Contouring and treatment planning.- Primary Liver Cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma and Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma): Clinical Data.- Primary Liver Cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma and Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma): Contouring and treatment planning.- Biliary Cancer (Extrahepatic Bile Duct and Gallbladder): Clinical Data.- Biliary Cancer (Extrahepatic Bile Duct and Gallbladder): Contouring and treatment planning.- Colon Cancer: Clinical Data.- Colon Cancer: Contouring and treatment planning.- Rectal Cancer: Clinical Data.- Rectal Cancer: Contouring and treatment planning.- Anal Cancer: Clinical Data.- Anal Cancer: Contouring and treatment planning.- Pelvic Recurrences: Clinical Data.- Pelvic Recurrences: Contouring, treatment planning, and Intra-operative Radiation Therapy.- Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy to the Liver for Metastatic disease: Clinical Data.- Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy to the Liver for Metastatic disease: Contouring and treatment planning.
About the author
Theodore S. Hong, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Dana-Farber / Harvard Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Boston, MA, USA
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.
Summary
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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“This book is an excellent reference for radiation treatment planning. The technical details for each tumor site are more comprehensively reviewed than in a typical textbook of general radiation oncology. For any practicing radiation oncologist who regularly treats patients with GI cancers, particularly upper GI tract sites, I would consider this a compulsory reference for successful treatment planning. … this book is a very timely and extremely useful reference for radiation treatment planning for GI cancers.” (Jason H. Lee, Doody's Book Reviews, July, 2017)
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"This book is an excellent reference for radiation treatment planning. The technical details for each tumor site are more comprehensively reviewed than in a typical textbook of general radiation oncology. For any practicing radiation oncologist who regularly treats patients with GI cancers, particularly upper GI tract sites, I would consider this a compulsory reference for successful treatment planning. ... this book is a very timely and extremely useful reference for radiation treatment planning for GI cancers." (Jason H. Lee, Doody's Book Reviews, July, 2017)
