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Radiation therapy : a guide to patient care
- Title
- Radiation therapy : a guide to patient care / [edited by] Marilyn Haas, [and others].
- Publication
- St. Louis, MO : Mosby/Elsevier, [2007], ©2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Additional Authors
- Haas, Marilyn.
- Description
- xx, 743 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 27 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Nurses Instruction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- I. Overview -- 1. Evolution of radiation oncology / Laura J. Hilderley -- 2. Basic principles of radiotherapy / Giselle J. Moore-Higgs -- 3. Radiation protection and safety / Maurene McQuestion -- II. Treatment work-up and planning -- 4. Diagnosis and staging / Jormain O. Cady -- 5. Simulation and treatment planning / Kim L. Light -- III. Integrative systems and site-specific disease -- 6. Central nervous system tumors / Terri S. Armstrong, Christie M. Hancock and Mark R. Gilbert -- 7. Head and neck cancers / Elise Carper -- 8. Lung cancer / Marilyn L. Haas -- 9. Breast cancer / Giselle J. Moore-Higgs -- 10. Gastrointestinal cancers / Jean C. Holland -- 11. Urinary cancers / Pamela Devine -- 12. Gynecologic cancers / Giselle J. Moore-Higgs -- 13. Male genitourinary cancers / William P. Hogle -- 14. Spinal cord and bone metastases / Diane Williams and Kathryn Burrows -- 15. Skin cancers / William P. Hogle -- 16. Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma / Heather Lynn Brumbaugh -- 17. Soft tissue sarcomas / Kellie L. Ritari -- 18. Non-malignant tumors / Mary Ann Robbins -- IV. Adjuvant therapies -- 19. Chemoradiation / Wendy H. Vogel -- 20. Combined Chemoradiation safety / Katen Moore and Martha Polovich -- 21. Interventional radiology procedures / Diana H. Wortham -- 22. Radioprotectants / Carrie F. Daly and Annette Lea Jones -- 23. Radiopharmaceuticals / Susan Vogt Temple -- V. Special treatment modalities -- 24. Sterotactic irradiation / Susan D. Bruce and Annette Martin Quinn -- 25. Accelerated partial breast irradiation / Anita Axiak and Christine Flynn -- 26. Total body irradiation and total lymphoid irradiation / Joni Dunn and Catherine M. Comeau Lew -- 27. Hyperthermia / Tracy K. Gosselin-Acomb -- 28. Gliasite radiation therapy system / Eileen Maloney Wilensky, Marilyn L. Haas and William P. Hogle -- 29. Total skin electron beam therapy / Tracy K. Gosselin-Acomb -- VI. Special supportive nursing care -- 30. Radiodermatitis / Sheila G. Sparks -- 31. Pain / Karen Snow Kaiser and Micke A. Brown -- 32. Mucositis / Mary Ellyn Witt -- 33. Nutrition through the continuum of cancer care / Sandra L. Luthringer -- 34. Radiation-induced nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea / Constance Engelking, Rita J. Wickham and Carmel Sauerland -- 35. Sexuality and sexual dysfunction / Judith A. Shell -- VII. Dimensions of clinical practice -- 36. Nursing research and clinical trials / Norissa Walter Honea -- 37. Advance practice nurses in radiation oncology / Colleen K. Lambertz -- 38. Evidence-based clinical guidelines / Judith A. DePalma -- 39. Clinical outcomes and documentation / Dianna Wellen Traylor -- 40. Geriatric considerations in radiation oncology nursing / Sarah H. Kagan and Mary Longnecker Garrett -- 41. Influence of complementary and alternative medicine / Georgia M. Decker.
- ISBN
- 0323040306
- 9780323040303 :
- OCLC
- ocn127113523
- 127113523
- SCSB-5337910
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries