Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar (Consultant in Clinical Oncology, Affiliate

Radiotherapy Planning

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Oncology
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 170mm x 104mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780198722694
• ISBN-10: 0198722699
• Artikelnr.: 67733717

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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