| Reviews |
| - 'A very nice and practically useful book for those involved in radiotherapy planning, clinical decision-making, and delivery. ... Trainees in radiotherapy in particular will find this book invaluable. It is a text that will be used rather than simply gather dust on the shelf.' - BMA Medical Book Competition 2007
- 'This clear, concise handbook provides an up-to-date mixture of evidence-based medicine and expert opinion for the relevant clinical application of external beam radiotherapy. With its easy-to-use format, it will be a valuable part of the radiotherapy library.' - Doody's Notes
- '
A practical guide to daily clinical practice in the radiotherapy department. External Beam Therapy
is an invaluable companion to trainees in medical physics, therapeutic radiography, and clinical or radiation oncology.
' - Anticancer Research 26
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| Description | | - Provides essential background information on external beam planning physics and dosimetry
- Emphasizes practical guidance, making it useful in clinical practice
- Includes site specific chapters covering all major cancer sites treated with this modality
- Uses extensive colour and black and white illustrations to aid understanding
| External beam therapy is the most common form of radiotherapy, delivering ionizing radiation such as high-energy x-rays, gamma rays or electron beams directly into the location of the patient's tumour. The beam is generated externally, with no radioactive sources placed within the patient's body. The beams aim at destroying the cancer cells with minimal impact on the surrounding healthy
tissue. The radiation oncologist will choose between different ways of administering the beams, such as linear accelerators, cobalt machines, or ortho-voltage x-ray machines. The three distinct stages of simulation, planning and treatment are critical to ensuring the highest rate of success.
This book is an essential, practical guide to the use of external beam radiotherapy, highlighting
the rapid technological advances made in recent years. It provides a firm background to the physics of external beam radiotherapy, taking the reader through the basic principles and discussing issues such as quality assurance. Experts within each field then expand upon techniques for treatment delivery within each anatomical site, covering indications, treatment and planning.
ABOUT THE
SERIES
Radiotherapy remains the major non-surgical treatment modality for the management of malignant disease, with over 50% of patients receiving treatment at some time during the management of their malignant disease. It is based on the application of the principles of applied physics, radiobiology, and tumour biology to clinical practice. Each volume in this series takes the reader through
the basic principles of different types of radiotherapy, and then develops these by individual sites. This series of practical handbooks are aimed at physicians both training and practising in radiotherapy, as well as medical physicists, dosimetrists, radiographers and senior nurses. |
Readership: The team devoted to delivering external beam therapy is comprised of oncologists, radiation physicists, medical physicists, dosimetrists, radiographers, and senior nurses. This book will appeal to anyone training in or practising radiotherapy.
| Contents |
1.
Introduction
,
P J Hoskin
2.
Physics for radiotherapy practice
,
K Venables
3.
Conformal and intensity modulated radiotherapy
,
P Williams
4.
Breast
,
E Donovan, C Coles, C Westbury and J R Yarnold
5.
Lung
,
S Erridge and E Toy
6.
Upper gastrointestinal sites
,
S Faulk
7a.
Lower gastrointestinal sites: colorectal
,
R Glynne-Jones and D Sebag-Montefiore
7b.
Lower gastrointestinal sites: anal canal
,
R Glynne-Jones and D Sebag-Montefiore
8a.
Urology: prostate
,
A S N Jackson, V Murthy and D P Dearnaley
8b.
Urology: bladder
,
A Zarkar and N James
8c.
Urology: testis
,
P J Hoskin
8d.
Urology: penis
,
P J Hoskin
9a.
Gynaecological: uterus
,
A Taylor and M E B Powell
9b.
Gynaecological: vulva and vagina
,
P J Hoskin
10.
Lymphoma
,
M Gospodarowicz, R W Tsang, D C Hodgson and P J Hoskin
11.
Central nervous system
,
N Burnet, K E Burton and S J Jefferies
12.
Head and neck
,
C Nutting and M I Saunders
13.
Skin tumours
,
P J Hoskin
14.
Bone and soft tissue sarcoma
,
M Robinson
15.
Paediatric radiotherapy
,
R Taylor
16.
Metastases
,
P J Hoskin
17.
Quality assurance in external beam therapy
,
P Diez and E Aird
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Peter Hoskin, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex; Professor of Clinical Oncology, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, London, UK
| Contributors:Edwin Aird, Head of Physics, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, UK
Neil G Burnet, University Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Oncologist, Neuro-oncology Unit, University of Cambridge Department of Oncology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, UK
Kate E Burton, Advanced Practitioner in Neuro-oncology, Neuro-oncology Unit, University of Cambridge Oncology Centre, Addenbrooke's Hospital, UK
Charlotte
Coles, Specialist Registrar in Clinical Oncology, Addenbrooke's NHS Trust, Cambridge, UK
D P Dearnaley, Reader in Prostate Cancer Studies, Institute of Cancer Research, London; Honorary Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, UK
Patricia Diez, Research Physicist, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, UK
Ellen Donovan, Clinical Physicist, Royal Marsden NHS Trust, UK
Sara C
Erridge, Senior Lecturer in Radiation Oncology, University of Edinburgh, UK
Stephen Faulk, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Bristol Oncology Centre, UK
Rob Glynne-Jones, Macmillan Lead Clinician in Gastrointestinal Cancer, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood, UK
Mary K Gospodarowicz, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Canada
David C Hodgson, Assistant
Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada
P J Hoskin, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex; Professor of Clinical Oncology, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, London, UK
A S N Jackson, Clinical Research Fellow, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, UK
Nicholas James, Professor,
Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, Birmingham, UK
Sarah J Jefferies, Neuro-oncology Unit, University of Cambridge Oncology Centre, Addenbrooke's Hospital, UK
Vedang Murthy, Honorary Specialist Registrar, Academic Unit of Radiotherapy, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, UK
Christopher Nutting, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton,
UK
Melanie Powell, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Barts and the London NHS Trust, UK
Martin H Robinson, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Oncology, Division of Genomic Medicine, University of Sheffield, UK
M I Saunders, Windeyer Professor of Oncology, University College London, UK
David Sebag-Montefiore, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Cookridge Hospital, Leeds, UK
A Taylor, Department of
Radiotherapy, Barts and the London NHS Trust, UK
Roger Taylor, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Cookridge Hospital, Leeds, UK
Elizabeth Toy, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Peninsular Medical School, UK
Richard W Tsang, Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Canada
Karen Venables, Physicist, Mount Vernon
Hospital, Northwood, UK
Peter C Williams, Professor of Radiological Physics, University of Manchester; Director of Physics, Christie Hospital, Manchester, UK
Charlotte Westbury, Clinical Research Fellow, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
John Yarnold, Professor of Clinical Oncology, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Anjali Zarkar, Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Queen
Elizabeth Medical Centre, Birmingham, UK |
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