Research Catalog

Title

Radiation oncology : technology and biology / [editors] Peter M. Mauch, Jay S. Loeffler.

Publication

Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders, [1994], ©1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Loeffler, Jay S.
• Mauch, Peter M.

Description

xxi, 594 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Subject

• Cancer > Radiotherapy
• Neoplasms > radiotherapy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Three-Dimensional Treatment Planning / Peter Kijewski -- 2. Charged Particles / John E. Munzenrider and Candace Crowell -- 3. Biochemical Modifiers: Hypoxic Cell Sensitizers / C. Norman Coleman, Clair J. Beard, Lynn Hlatky, Tim Tak Kwok and Ed Bump -- 4. Biochemical Modifiers: Nonhypoxic Cell Sensitizers / Cornelius J. McGinn and Timothy J. Kinsella -- 5. Biochemical Modifiers: Drug-Radiation Interactions / Theodore L. Phillips -- 6. Intraoperative Radiotherapy / Tyvin A. Rich -- 7. Boron Neutron Capture Therapy / David E. Wazer, Robert G. Zamenhof, Otto K. Harling and Hywel Madoc-Jones -- 8. Radiosurgery / John C. Flickinger, L. Dade Lunsford and Douglas Kondziolka -- 9. Brachytherapy / Dennis C. Shrieve, Philip H. Gutin and David A. Larson -- 10. Stereotactic Radiation Therapy / Susan F. Dunbar and Jay S. Loeffler -- 11. Photodynamic Therapy / Thomas J. Dougherty -- 12. Hyperthermia / J. R. Oleson -- 13. Novel Anticarcinoma Activities of Lipophilic Cations / James R. Wong and Lan Bo Chen.
• 14. Trimodality Therapy: Antitumor Chemotherapy with Hyperthermia and Radiation / Beverly A. Teicher and Terence S. Herman -- 15. Radioisotopes. A. Radioimmunoconjugates and Other Target-Selective Therapeutic Radiopharmaceuticals / Roger M. Macklis. B. The Use of Systemic Radionuclides in the Treatment of Metastatic Bone Disease / Arthur T. Porter and Jeffrey D. Forman -- 16. Total Body Irradiation for Bone Marrow Transplantation / Nancy J. Tarbell, Lee M. Chin and Peter M. Mauch -- 17. Hemibody Irradiation / Philip Rubin and Charles W. Scarantino -- 18. Total Lymphoid Irradiation / Richard T. Hoppe -- 19. Genetics of Radiation Resistance / Gary D. Kao and W. Gillies McKenna -- 20. Radiation-Induced Gene Expression / Dennis E. Hallahan, Matthew L. Sherman, Donald W. Kufe and Ralph R. Weichselbaum -- 21. Radiation Mutagenesis and Carcinogenesis / Howard L. Liber, Karl T. Kelsey and John B. Little -- 22. Tumor Angiogenesis: Biology and Therapeutic Implications / Howard A. Fine and Timothy Pluard.
• 23. Brachytherapy: Low Dose Rate and Its Alternatives / Peter B. Schiff, David J. Brenner and Eric J. Hall -- 24. Cell Proliferation / Mark A. Ritter -- 25. Altered Fractionation Schemes / Lester J. Peters and K. Kian Ang.

ISBN

0721667244

LCCN

93031650

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries