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Image-Guided Radiotherapy of Lung Cancer
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Product Description
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States, but IGRT (image guided radiation therapy) offers the possibility of more aggressive and enhanced treatments. The only available source on the subject that emphasizes new imaging techniques, and provides step-by-step treatment guidelines for lung cancer, this source helps clinicians locate and target tumors with enhanced speed, improve the accuracy of radiation delivery, and correctly target cancerous masses while avoiding surrounding structures.
Edited by radiation oncology experts from the renowned M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, this guide:
- focuses on novel approaches using IGRT, particularly PET/CT, SPECT, 4-D CT, stereotactic body radiation therapy, IMRT and proton radiotherapy, and offers expert guidance on the dose, fractionation, target volume delineation (including recommended margins with and without respiratory gating based on our new 4-D CT study), and normal tissue tolerances
- stands as the first step-by-step guide for radiation oncologists to implement new image-guided techniques into their day-to-day clinical practice, and considers the practical issues of implementing these approaches into their routine
- helps clinicians use imaging technologies to detect changes in tumor size, shape, position, or metabolism over a course of radiotherapy treatment
- provides disease stage-specific treatment guidelines and clearly lays out imaging techniques
- serves as roadmap for future research and development
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #922455 in Books
- Published on: 2007-09-20
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .71" h x 8.72" w x 11.05" l, 1.93 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 192 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
Any clinician who routinely treats patients with lung cancer has probably had times when they wished they could spend a month at an institution such as the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and see how things are done there. Of course, very few of us have the ability to do that, but this book is the next best thing. It is an excellent resource for any radiation oncologist who has a significant practice of patients with lung cancer. -International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, 2008
