Clinical Radiation Oncology

This practical new resource integrates guidance on radiation therapy with surgery and chemotherapy to reflect the latest standards of oncologic care. Comprehensive and authoritative, it emphasises improving disease control and survival while minimising treatment related side effects. A consistent chapter organisation and format plus more than 780 figures, treatment algorithms, and tables make reference easy.Offers broad perspectives on the field with a diverse team of respected editors and contributors drawn from institutions across the country.Describes the scientific foundations of radiation oncology and general oncology as well as state-of-the-art techniques and modalities.Examines the therapeutic management of specific disease sites based on a single modality and combined modality approaches.Helps readers make the best clinical decisions for their patients with discussions of indications for treatment as well as data on disease control, survival, and treatment tolerance.Features consistently organised disease-site chapters that offer a summary followed by coverage of etiology/epidemiology; prevention and early detection; pathology and pathways of spread; biology; clinical manifestations/patient evaluation/staging; primary therapy (including adjuvant); locally advanced disease and palliation; techniques and tolerance of irradiation; treatmentalgorithms, controversies, challenges, future possibilities, and clinical trials; as well as references.Organises disease-site chapters into sections that explore the head and neck, the breast, and other body regions. Each of these sections features an overview chapter discussing anatomy, staging, normal tissue tolerance, treatment results and controversies, unusual diseases, and other topics common to that region of the body.