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Stereotactic body radiation therapy : lung cancer / editors Simon Lo [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Clinical insights.
- Clinical Insights, 2047-332X
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lungs--Cancer--Radiotherapy.
- Lungs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 pages) : color illustrations, photographs.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Future Medicine Ltd, 2013.
- Summary:
- The fourteen chapters of this book are authored by international experts and include molecular characterization, screening and risk factors, disease staging and prognosis, and forms of therapy for non-small-cell and small-cell lung cancer.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Stereotactic body radiation therapy: lung cancer
- Stereotactic body radiation therapy and lung cancer
- Radiobiology of stereotactic body radiation therapy
- SBRT: frame-based and image-guided strategies
- CyberKnife®-based SBRT for lung cancer
- SBRT: evolving standards in tumor response evaluation
- Radiation pneumonitis prediction and management
- Chest wall toxicities: prediction and management
- Surgery versus SBRT for early-stage lung cancer: a new treatment option?
- Target contouring &
- treatment planning in lung SBRT
- ASK THE EXPERTS: strategies to minimize complications from SBRT for lung cancer
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- The high-risk, early-stage patient
- Lung SBRT: selection, staging &
- work-up of the medically inoperable patient
- Conclusion
- Vascular effects of ablative-dose radiation
- Radiation &
- hypoxia
- Radiation effects of SBRT on tumor vasculature
- The four 'R's in SBRT
- Radiobiological model for SBRT
- Immobilization
- Respiratory motion control
- Abdominal compression
- Active breathing control
- Target localization
- Frame-based strategies
- Image-guided strategies
- Real-time tumor gating
- TomoTherapy
- 2D-KV/MV image guidance
- Cone beam computed tomography
- 4D-CBCT
- Future directions
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- How do you define treatment response?
- How do you define treatment failure?
- Computed tomography
- PET with computed tomography fusion
- Limitations of PET
- Standard imaging &
- clinical management strategies
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- Natural history
- Grading systems
- Incidence of RP after SBRT
- Risk factors for developing RP
- Techniques to decrease the risk of RP
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- Skin
- Rib fractures
- Management
- Surgical management of Stage I NSCLC
- Stereotactic body radiation therapy
- Target delineation
- Organ-at-risk delineation
- Treatment planning
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- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed Noverber 7, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 1-78084-358-5
- 1-78084-357-7
- OCLC:
- 1006425619
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