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Radiotherapy Planning by Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar (Consultant in Clinical Oncology Affiliated Associate Professor, Consultant in Clinical Oncology Affiliated Associate Professor, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust University of Cambridge, UK)

Radiotherapy Planning is the new title in the Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Oncology series. It provides a comprehensive guide to modern radiotherapy practice, firmly based on unchanging principles. The author discusses advanced radiotherapy techniques as well as simpler field-based arrangements, so that this handbook can be used globally for clinical practice, including countries with limited resources. The site-specific chapters are structured in two parts. Firstly, current treatment approaches are discussed, with particular attention to the relevant underlying principles to ensure it remains appropriate and useful despite changes in other cancer treatments. The second part of each chapter discusses the most important clinical trials which have informed the current approaches to treatment at the time of publication. In addition, there is a section on imaging features of different tumours, which is useful for clinicians to choose appropriate images for target volume delineation. This handbook will give an accessible introduction to new trainees in the specialty, and it will continue to encourage in all clinical oncologists logical thinking, the ability to ask challenging questions, appropriate analysis of outcomes, and delivery of treatment assessed according to its clinical benefit to patients and its academic rigour.

About Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar (Consultant in Clinical Oncology Affiliated Associate Professor, Consultant in Clinical Oncology Affiliated Associate Professor, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust University of Cambridge, UK)

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.

Table 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

Additional information

NGR9780198722694
9780198722694
0198722699
Radiotherapy Planning by Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar (Consultant in Clinical Oncology Affiliated Associate Professor, Consultant in Clinical Oncology Affiliated Associate Professor, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust University of Cambridge, UK)
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Paperback
Oxford University Press
2023-03-21
624
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