Essentials of Clinical Radiation Oncology: A Comprehensive Guide

Essentials of Clinical Radiation Oncology is a user-friendly clinical review that provides a comprehensive overview of up-to-date cancer care. Each chapter is structured for easy navigation and information retention, starting with a quick-hit summary that covers the overview of each disease, its natural history, and general treatment options.

Quick-Hit Summaries

Following each quick-hit summary are high-yield summaries that cover essential information such as:

• Epidemiology
• Risk factors
• Anatomy
• Pathology
• Genetics
• Screening
• Clinical presentation
• Workup
• Prognostic factors
• Staging
• Treatment paradigms
• Medical management for each malignancy

Treatment Paradigms

Each treatment paradigm section describes the current standard of care for radiation therapy, including:

• Indications
• Dose constraints
• Side effects

Evidence-Based Q&A

Chapters conclude with an evidence-based question and answer section that summarizes practice-changing data to answer key information associated with radiation treatment outcomes.

Flow Diagrams and Tables

Flow diagrams and tables consolidate information throughout the book, providing a useful resource for radiation oncologists and related practitioners when approaching treatment planning and clinical care.

Key Features

Essentials of Clinical Radiation Oncology offers:

• Digestible information as a learning guide for general practice
• Essential clinical questions answered with evidence-based data from important clinical studies
• Clinical trials and data placed into historical context with relevance in current practice
• Quick reference tables on treatment options and patient selection, workup, and prognostic factors by disease site

Product Details

Essentials of Clinical Radiation Oncology is available in paperback format, with 670 pages. It was published by Demos Medical on December 15, 2017. The language of the book is English, and the ISBN-10 is 082616854X, with an ISBN-13 of 978-0826168542. The product dimensions are 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches.