Overview
- Explains the process to approach a cancer patient and deciding a treatment modality
- Outlines the use of newer modalities of radiotherapy
- Summarizes the ways of correctly evaluating a radiation schedule, delivering treatment correctly
- Elaborates on patient care during treatment
- Covers management of complications and sequelae of treatment
- Includes counseling of patients
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Approaching a Cancer Patient
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Principles of Application of Radiotherapy
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About this book
This book summarizes the do’s and don’ts of managing a patient receiving radiotherapy or chemotherapy as well as how to manage common day to day situations that one comes across in radiation oncology practice. It aims to serve as a useful guide for students of radiation oncology for their practical exams and provides useful answers mostly to the why’s of the various steps of radiotherapy planning, prescribing, evaluation and treatment delivery. The intent of this book is to cover the various indications and techniques for taking a decision on the various practical aspects of radiotherapy planning and delivery and hopes to offer assistance to young radiation oncologists in handling cancer patients. This is a more practice oriented book and does not aim to cover the various sites, types and indications of radiotherapy as a whole.
Reviews
“This book is a combination of equipment design, basic physics, patient advice, dosimetry evaluation and use of concurrent treatments to enhance radio-therapy, and will be a useful introductory book for students and trainees across the radiotherapy field to understand the patient pathway and experience of radiotherapy, although care must be taken with the currency of information, in particular in managing toxicities.” (Naomi Dickie, RAD Magazine, December, 2018)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Ashutosh Mukherji has done his graduation and post graduation (radiotherapy) from Delhi University and presently works as Additional Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Regional Cancer Centre, JIPMER, Puducherry as well as Associate Dean (Research), JIPMER. He has expertise in management of solid tumors with radiotherapy, chemotherapy as well as modern radiotherapy techniques including IGRT, IMRT and stereotactic radiotherapy. He has many years of experience in the use of telecobalt machine, simulator, CT scan and MRI based planning, linear accelerators and brachytherapy. His areas of interest are GI and hepatobiliary cancers, head & neck cancers, use of conformal RT, pediatric oncology, skin cancers and mould brachytherapy. He has published several papers in journals, book chapters, presented papers and posters in national conferences, given talks in CMEs and academic meets. He has been the organising secretary for CMEs, multi-institute level scientific workshops, as well as regional Chapter conferences. He has been the Secretary of JIPMER Scientific Society and member of executive committee of Indian Brachytherapy Society. Dr. Mukherji has been awarded fellowship on many occasions in national meets. He has been appointed as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Advanced Medical Health Research, the official journal of JIPMER and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics (JCRT).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Basics of Planning and Management of Patients during Radiation Therapy
Book Subtitle: A Guide for Students and Practitioners
Authors: Ashutosh Mukherji
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6659-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6658-0Published: 15 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3888-5Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6659-7Published: 01 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 403
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 86 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oncology, Radiotherapy