Radiation Oncology in Palliative Cancer Care
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-1-118-48415-9 (ISBN)
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Even in developed countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, palliative care professionals believe that radiation therapy is important for their common cancer patients. Yet while they do have ready access to radiation oncology specialists and facilities, only about half of them feel sufficiently trained to identify situations where palliative radiotherapy might be most useful. The initial five chapters of the book provide readers unfamiliar with the specifics of Radiation Oncology a framework from which they can gain the most clinical knowledge out of the ensuing treatment-oriented chapters. Meanwhile, most radiation oncologists engaged in the palliative use of radiotherapy are not fully trained and up to date in overall principles and techniques of palliation and symptom control. Five chapters in this book deal with these issues and serve to augment the radiation oncologist's education in a way that helps to make up for any absence of the provision of this knowledge in their training programs.
The book also addresses the challenges of providing proper palliative radiotherapy care in developing countries, where the problems are different and can be even more difficult to surmount. Economically disadvantaged countries lack the resources to provide a sufficient number radiotherapy centers to serve their populations, with technological advances placing the newest generations of treatment machines further from the reach of disadvantaged locales. Even in countries with a reasonable number of facilities, the travel burdens placed upon patients who need to be evaluated and treated by doctors in these centers may be prohibitive.
Stephen Lutz is one of only a small number of Radiation Oncologists who is also board certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.?He has served as the liaison between the US radiotherapy and palliative care communities for the past several years. His main research interests have included the formation of palliative radiotherapy treatment guidelines as well as the collaboration between the two specialties with regard to research, education, and patient advocacy. Edward Chow is a Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto?and is a senior scientist in the Sunnybrook Research Institute. He is Chair of the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program and Bone Metastases Site Group in the Odette Cancer Center at?Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Peter Hoskin is a UK clinical oncologist with long standing research interests in palliative radiotherapy, in particular the management of bone metastases and spinal cord compression. He was a clinical research fellow in Palliative Medicine working in opioid pharmacology before focusing his interests in clinical oncology and was Chair of the International Consensus in Palliative Radiotherapy in 2000 and ESTRO Co-chair in 2010. He has written extensively on the role of radiotherapy in palliative care in original publications and major book chapters.
Contributors
Foreword
Part 1 General principles of radiation oncology
A Brief History of Palliative Radiation Oncology
Joshua Jones
The Radiobiology of Palliative Radiation Oncology
Candice Johnstone
The Physics of Palliative Radiation Oncology
Shaun Baggarley & Jiade Lu
Curative Intent versus Purely Palliative Intent Radiation Oncology
Vassilios Vassiliou & Haris Charalambous
Side Effects of Palliative Radiation Oncology
Alysa Fairchild
Part 2 General principles of palliation and symptom control
6 A History of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Michelle Winslow & Marcia Meldrum
7 The Current Status of Hospice
Charles F. von Gunten, Frank D. Ferris, & A.J. Mundt
8 The Current Status of Palliative Care
Tom Smith & Susannah Yovino
9 Pain Management
Erin McMenamin
10 Palliative Care in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
Henry Ddungu & Elizabeth Barnes
Part 3 Locally advanced or locally recurrent diseases
11 Primary Tumors of the Central Nervous System
Caroline Chung & Eric Chang
12 Head & Neck Cancer
Albert Tiong & June Corry
13 Breast Cancer
Ian Kunkler
14 Lung Cancer
George Rodrigues & Benjamin Movsas
15 Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Cancer
Rob Glynne-Jones & Mark Harrison
16 Genitourinary Malignancies
Gillian Duchesne
17 Gynecologic Cancer
Firuza Patel
18 Hematologic Malignancies
David Howell
19 Pediatric Cancers
Tamara Vern-Gross
Part 4 Metastatic Disease
20 Metastatic Bone Disease
Yvette van der Linden & Dirk Rades
21 Spinal Cord Compression
Ernesto Maranzano & Fabio Trippa
22 Brain metastases
May Tsao
23 Liver Metastases
Sean Bydder
24 Malignant Neuropathic Pain, Adrenal, Choroidal and Skin Metastases
Daniel E Roos & Aaron H. Wolfson
Part 5 Integration of Radiation Oncology and Palliative Care
25 Design Challenges in Palliative Radiotherapy Clinical Trials
Deb Watkins Bruner & Lawrence Berk
26 Radiation Oncology Cost Effectiveness
Andre Konski
27 Quality measures of palliative radiotherapy
James Hayman, Rinaa Punglia & Anushree M. Vichare
28 Technologically Advanced Palliative Radiation Oncology
Simon Lo, Bin S. Teh, Samuel T. Chao, Arjun Sahgal, Nina A. Mayr & Eric L. Chang
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.5.2013 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 120 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 650 g |
| Einbandart | gebunden |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Palliativmedizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-118-48415-0 / 1118484150 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-118-48415-9 / 9781118484159 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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