Radiation Medicine Rounds discusses the more salient topics surrounding the role of radiation therapy in breast cancer. The specialty of radiation therapy has increased in complexity over the years, yet as technology improves, the goal of improving outcomes while decreasing toxicity remains critical.
Breast Cancer provides the practitioner with a full current overview of the present best practices and recent research in management of this complex and challenging cancer.
Table of Content
1. History of Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer, Sean Mc Bride, MD; 2. Role of Radiation Therapy in DCIS, Parima Daroui, MD and Bruce Haffty, MD; 3. Advances in Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation, J. Ben Wilkinson, MD, Laurie Cuttino, MD, and Frank Vicini, MD; 4. Hypofractionation for Breast Cancer, Navita Somaiah and John Yarnold; 5. Post Mastectomy RT, Abram Recht, MD; 6. RT after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy, Barbara Fowble, MD; 7. Radiotherapy and Breast Reconstruction, Alice Y. Ho, MD, MBA and Beryl Mc Cormick, MD; 8. Local Failure and Biological Subtypes, Nils Arvold, MD and Alphonse Taghian, MD; 9. The use of IMRT in Breast Cancer, Jean-Philippe Pignol, MD; 10. Role of Protons in Breast Cancer, Shannon Mac Donald, MD; 11. Cardiac Exposure to Radiation, Robert Prosnitz, MD; 12. Individualizing Risk of Loco-Regional Recurrence with Molecular and Genomic Classifiers, Eleftherios Mamounas, MD; 13. Current and Future State of Breast Radiation Therapy, Paula H.M. Elkhuizen, MD, Ph D and Harry Bartelink, MD, Ph D
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Charles R. Thomas, Jr., MD is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Radiation Medicine and Professor of Hematology/Oncology at the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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