Title | Intraoperative Irradiation [electronic resource] : Techniques and Results / edited by Leonard L. Gunderson, Christopher G. Willet, Louis B. Harrison, Felipe A. Calvo |
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Imprint | Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 1999 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-696-6 |
Descript | XIX, 551 p. online resource |
I. General Rationale and Historical Perspective -- 1 General Rationale and Historical Perspective of Intraoperative Irradiation -- 2 Biology of Large Dose per Fraction Radiation Therapy -- II. Methods and Techniques of Treatment -- 3 Physical Aspects of Intraoperative Electron-Beam Irradiation -- 4 IOERT Treatment Factors: Technique, Equipment -- 5 Physics of Intraoperative High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy -- 6 High-Dose-Rate Intraoperative Irradiation (HDR-IORT): Technical Factors -- 7 Intraoperative Irradiation with Electron-Beam or High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy: Methodological Comparisons -- III. Normal Tissue ToleranceโIORT -- 8 Normal Tissue Tolerance to Intraoperative Irradiation: The National Cancer Institute Experimental Studies -- 9 Studies at Colorado State University of Normal Tissue Tolerance of Beagles to IOERT, EBRT, or a Combination -- 10 Peripheral Nerve Tolerance: Experimental and Clinical -- IV. Results of IORT with or Without EBRT by Disease Site -- 11 Gastric IORT With or Without EBRT -- 12 IORT in Pancreatic Carcinoma -- 13 Biliary Tract IORT: Bile Duct and Gallbladder -- 14 Primary Colorectal EBRT and IOERT -- 15 Recurrent Colorectal: EBRT With or Without IOERT or HDR-IORT -- 16 HDR-IORT for Colorectal Cancer: Clinical Experience -- 17 Radiation Ablation of Liver Metastases: HDR-IORT With or Without EBRT -- 18 Electron or Orthovoltage IORT for Retroperitoneal Sarcomas -- 19 HDR-IORT for Retroperitoneal Sarcomas -- 20 Extremity and Trunk Soft Tissue Sarcomas: EBRT With or Without IORT -- 21 IORT for Bone Sarcomas -- 22 Locally Advanced Primary and Recurrent Gynecologic Malignancies: EBRT With or Without IOERT or HDR-IORT -- 23 Genitourinary IORT -- 24 Lung Cancer: EBRT With or Without IORT -- 25 Pediatric Malignancies: IORT Alone or With EBRT -- 26 IORT for Head and Neck Cancer -- 27 IORT for CNS Tumors -- 28 IORT for Breast Cancer -- V. Conclusions and Future Possiblities -- 29 Conclusions and Future PossiblitiesโIORT