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"This book highlights up-to-date and novel information with clinical aspects regarding breast cancer. It covers aspects ranging from epidemiology, biology, and molecular classification to currently available and potentially new therapeutic options for breast cancer. It highlights insights into brea…
Table of Contents:; Epidemiology and risk factors for breast cancer -- Primary and secondary prevention of breast cancer --Premalignant changes and in situ carcinoma -- Natural history of invasive breast cancer -- Histology of breast cancer -- Clinical and pathological staging -- Molecular factors …
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:; General Physics Principles / Andrew D. Vassil, Lama M. Mossolly, Neil M. Woody, and Gregory M.M. Videtic -- Tools for Simulation and Treatment / Neil M. Woody and Gregory M.M. Videtic -- Central Nervous System Radiotherapy / Samuel T. Chao, Jennifer S. Yu, and John H. Suh -- Head and Nec…
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Thoroughly updated and extended, this new edition offers a comprehensive guide and overview of these new technologies and the many clinical treatment programs that bring them into practical use. Advances in intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), and 4D and adaptive treatment planning are clearly …
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Contents:; Radiation therapy effects on the central nervous system / Cramer, Chan, Kirkpatrick -- Radiation therapy effects in head and neck cancer / Galloway, Yom -- Radiation therapy effects on the thorax / Kaidar, Person, Zagar, Marks -- Radiation therapy effects in breast cancer / Boggs, De Los…
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Contents:; 1: Epidemiology; 2: Young Age and Breast Cancer Biology; 3: Imaging to Improve Diagnosis of Breast Cancer in Young Women; 4: Establishing a Program for Young Women at High Risk for Breast Cancer; 5: Locoregional Management of Hereditary Breast Cancer; 6: Systemic Therapies of Young Breas…
Table of Contents:; Breast Imaging: Tomosynthesis, Elastography, Breast MRI and Emerging Techniques -- Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy -- Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy: Current Perspectives -- Management of the Axilla in Breast Cancer -- Margins and Breast Cancer -- Percutaneous Ablation in the T…
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Contents:; The cancer problem in children -- Leukemias in children -- Supratentorial brain tumors -- Tumors of the posterior fossa and the spinal canal -- Retinoblastoma -- Neuroblastoma -- Hodgkin lymphoma -- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma -- Ewing sarcoma -- Osteosarcoma, chordoma, and chondrosarcoma -- Rh…
Table of Contents:; Historic development of stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic body radiation therapy -- Gamma Knife -- Conventional medical linear accelerators adapted for stereotactic radiation therapy -- Dedicated linear accelerators for stereotactic radiation therapy -- Light ion beam …
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Table of Contents:; PART 1: Overview of Evaluation and Management of Breast Diseases; -- Radiological Evaluation of Breast Diseases -- Radiologic Overview and Management -- Radiological overview - calcifications -- Pathologic Evaluation of Breast Diseases -- Pathologic evaluation of breast masses, …
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