The BC Cancer Library
Delivering timely service and evidence-informed resources to people in BC and the Yukon facing cancer and those involved in oncology care or research.
Delivering timely service and evidence-informed resources to people in BC and the Yukon facing cancer and those involved in oncology care or research.
Table of Contents:; IONIZING RADIATION -- QUANTITIES FOR DESCRIBING THE INTERACTION OF IONIZING RADIATION WITH MATTER -- EXPONENTIAL ATTENUATION -- CHARGED-PARTICLE AND RADIATION EQUILIBRIA -- ABSORBED DOSE IN RADIOACTIVE MEDIA -- RADIOACTIVE DECAY; GAMMA- AND X-RAY INTERACTIONS IN MATTER -- CHARG…
Radiation in the treatment of cancer; Uncertainty; Mapping anatomy; Designing a treatment beam; Biology matters; Designing a treatment plan; Motion management; Planning manually; IMRT and optimization; Proton therapy in water; Proton therapy in the patient; Quality assurance; Confidence
Table of Contents:; 1. Executive Summary -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Scope -- 1.3 Conclusions and Recommendations -- 1.3.1 General -- 1.3.2 Operational Health Physics -- 1.3.3 Internal Dosimetry -- 1.3.4 Summary -- 2. Introduction -- 2.1 Background -- 2.2 Purpose -- 3. Types and Sources of Nanomateria…
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Table of Contents:; Pediatric malignancies[JS3] -- Gastrointestinal malignancies -- Gynecological malignancies -- Genitourinary malignancies -- Lymphoma/myeloma -- Head and neck malignancies -- Thoracic malignancies -- Breast cancer -- Bone/sarcoma -- Central nervous system -- Practice test 1: basi…
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Table of Contents:; The generation of quantitative radiobiology data -- The intrinsic radiosensitivity of proliferating and quiescent mammalian cells -- The effects of ionization volume and density -- The importance of fraction size, dose-rate, temperature, and overall time of exposure-- Ionizing e…
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Contents:; Introduction : health equity does not equal health equality / Janice M. Phillips and Margaret P. Moss -- Nursing as a force for health equity / Joanne Disch -- Evidence-based policymaking / Myra Michelle DeBose, Ejim Sule, and Debbie Ann Jones -- Health equity and nursing education : pas…
"It feels as though the field of health equity has finally come into its time. Conversations about the presence of health disparities have evolved into discussions of how to eliminate them, which have in turn evolved into a broader movement to truly achieve equity in health predictors, statuses, an…
Contents:; Introduction to ethics -- Contemporart ethical dilemmas -- End-of-life dilemmas -- Health care ethics committee -- Development of law -- Introduction to law -- Government ethics and the law -- Oganizational ethics and the law -- Health care professional legal-ethical issues -- Physician?…
An orientation; Basics of quality improvement; Advance care planning; Preventing, assessing, and treating pain; Assuring comfort; Caring for caregivers; Continuity and transfers; Chronic care: heart and lung failure; Nursing home quality: pressure ulcers; Improving care for people with advanced dem…
