Radiotherapy Planning: A Comprehensive Guide

By Dr. Thankamma Ajithkumar, “Radiotherapy Planning” is the latest addition to the Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Oncology series. This book provides a detailed guide to modern radiotherapy practices, rooted in fundamental principles that remain unchanged. The author discusses both advanced radiotherapy techniques and simpler field-based arrangements, making this handbook a valuable resource for clinical practice worldwide, including countries with limited resources.

Site-Specific Chapters

The site-specific chapters are structured in two parts. The first part discusses current treatment approaches, with a focus on the underlying principles to ensure the information remains relevant and useful despite changes in other cancer treatments. The second part of each chapter reviews the most important clinical trials that have informed current treatment approaches at the time of publication.

Imaging Features of Different Tumors

In addition, there is a section on imaging features of different tumors, which is useful for clinicians to choose appropriate images for target volume delineation.

A Valuable Resource for Clinical Oncologists

This handbook will provide 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 rigor.

Product Details

Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1st edition (June 21, 2023)
Language: English
Pages: 624
ISBN-10: 0198722699
ISBN-13: 978-0198722694