Bookeditor, Phillip M. Devlin, MD, FACR, FASTRO, FFRRCSI(Hon), Chief, Division of Brachytherapy,
... Show More Institute Physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts ; associate editors, Robert A. Cormack, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Caroline L. Holloway, MD, FRCP(C), Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of British Columbia. and Radiation Oncologist, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver Island Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Alexandra J. Stewart, DM, MRCP, FRCR, Clinical Lead for Oncology, St. Luke's Cancer Centre, Royal Surrey County Hospital, and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Surrey, Guildford, England.
Contents:
A century of brachytherapy (from the prostate's perspective) / Jesse N. Aronowitz
Radiobiologic concepts for brachytherapy / Alexandra J. Stewart, Robert A. Cormack, and Kathryn D. Held
Technical aspects of brachytherapy / Mandar S. Bhagwat, Ivan M. Buzurovic, Antonio L. Damato, Scott A. Friesen, Jorgen L. Hansen, Desmond A. O'Farrell, Emily Sugar, and Robert A. Cormack
Genitourinary brachytherapy / Paul L. Nguyen, André-Guy Martin, and Peter F. Orio
Gynecologic brachytherapy / Larissa J. Lee, Antonio L. Damato, and Akila N. Viswanathan
Breast brachytherapy / Simona M. Shaitelman, Chirag Shah, Leonard H. Kim, Frank A. Vicini, Douglas W. Arthur, and Atif J. Khan
Thoracic brachytherapy / Keyur J. Mehta, Nitika Thawani, and Subhakar Mutyala
Skin brachytherapy / Phillip M. Devlin and Anna O. Likhacheva
Head and neck brachytherapy / J. Nicholas Lukens, Kenneth S. Hu, Peter C. Levendag, David Teguh, Paul Busse, and Louis B. Harrison
Central nervous system brachytherapy / Abigail L. Stockham and Nils D. Arvold
Gastrointestinal brachytherapy / Alexandra J. Stewart, Nikolaos Tselis, Michele Albert, Nitika Thawani, and Arthur Sun Myint
Soft tissue sarcoma brachytherapy / Caroline L. Holloway and Chandrajit P. Raut
Pediatric brachytherapy / Lara Hathout, Suzanne L. Wolden, and Gilad N. Cohen
Vascular brachytherapy / Chien Peter Chen, Ray Lin, and Prabhakar Tripuraneni
Foundations of a brachytherapy practice / D. Jeffrey Demanes, Ron DiGiaimo, Casilda Menchaca-Garcia, and Tamara Syverson.