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This specialist handbook provides a comprehensive guide to modern radiotherapy practice, firmly based on unchanging principles. The author has described advanced radiotherapy techniques as well as simpler field-based arrangements.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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.
Summary
This specialist handbook provides a comprehensive guide to modern radiotherapy practice, firmly based on unchanging principles. The author has described advanced radiotherapy techniques as well as simpler field-based arrangements.
Additional text
[...] 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.
