Book[edited by] Monica S. Krishnan, Margarita Racsa, Hsiang-Hsuan Michael Yu.
Contents:
General approach to palliative care and palliative radiation oncology / Candice J. Johnstone and Stephen Lutz
Communication / Margarita Racsa
Prognostication in patients receiving palliative radiation therapy / Monica S. Krishnan
Palliative care, hospice care, advance care planning, and advance directives / Allison Taylor
Palliative care assessment / Joshua Jones
Pain management / Lauren Koranteng and Natalie Moryl
GI symptoms / Nicholas Chiu, Natalie Pulenzas, Ernest Maranzano, Carlo DeAngelis, Na Zhang, Hsiang-Hsuan Michael Yu and Edward Chow
Management of dyspnea and central airway obstruction in patients with malignancy / Randy Li-Hung Wei and Lorriana E. Leard
Malignant bleeding / Candice C. Johnstone
Skin toxicity in palliative radiation therapy / Lauren Hertan
Palliative radiotherapy for brain metastasis / Rachel B. Jiminez and Helen A. Shih
Palliative radiotherapy for malignant epidural spinal cord compression / Hsiang-Hsuan Michael Yu, Ernest Maranzano and Dirk Rades
Palliative radiotherapy for bone metastasis / Puja Venkat, Stephen Lutz and Hsiang-Hsuan Michael Yu
Site-pecific symptom management / Ryan Rhome and Kavita Dharmarajan
Palliative radiation oncology for gastrointestinal tract malignancies / Puja Venkat, Sarah E. Hoffe and Jessica M. Frakes
Palliative radiotherapy for advanced and metastatic gynecologic and genitourinary malignancies / Emma C. Fields, Mitchell S. Anscher and Alfredo I. Urdaneta
Palliative radiotherapy for advanced and metastatic head and neck cancers and skin metastases / Tyler J. Wilhite and Jonathan D. Schoenfeld.