Innovations in radiation oncology

Book · Thu Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:5132824

Withers, H R; Peters, L J

The book contains reports of areas of growth in radiation oncology written for the practising radiation oncologist. Early chapters review conservative treatments that preserve the function and maintain or improve tumor control rates in breast, rectum, anus, head and neck, soft tissues and bones, and the eye. This is followed by a section dealing with extended field therapy encompassing total body irradiation, half body irradiation and systemic therapy with radionuclide-labelled antibodies. The potential roles of three new diagnostic imaging technologies (CT, MRI and PET) in radiotherapy are considered. Various modifications of treatment are reviewed, including hyperfractionation, accelerated treatment, accelerated hyperfractionation and neutron therapy. Also discussed is the clinical use of adjuvants to radiotherapy, such as radiosensitizers, cytotoxic drugs, interstitial and external hyperthermia and bone fixation in metastatic disease.

• OSTI ID: 5132824
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
ANTIBODIES
ANTINEOPLASTIC DRUGS
BODY
BODY AREAS
BODY TEMPERATURE
CARCINOGENESIS
CARCINOMAS
COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
DIAGNOSTIC USES
DISEASES
DRUGS
EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
EXTERNAL IRRADIATION
GLANDS
HEAD
HYPERTHERMIA
IMAGE PROCESSING
IRRADIATION
LABELLED COMPOUNDS
MAMMARY GLANDS
MEDICINE
METASTASES
NECK
NEOPLASMS
NMR IMAGING
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
ORGANS
PATHOGENESIS
POSITRON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
PROCESSING
RADIOINDUCTION
RADIOLOGY
RADIOTHERAPY
SKELETON
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
THERAPY
TOMOGRAPHY
TOXICITY
USES
WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION