By Paul G. Abrams, Alan R. Fritzberg

Reflecting the prior twenty years of excessive learn in radioimmunotherapy, this well timed reference surveys an expansive breadth of issues at the evolving advancements in radiation remedy. put within the context of advances in melanoma therapy, chapters development systematically from easy ideas and homes of radionuclides to specific summaries of present melanoma cures. modern, in actual fact equipped, and thorough-sure to develop into a customary within the box! supplying entire therapy on radiolabeled antibody treatment, Radioimmunotherapy of melanoma ·reviews dosimetric rules and medical dosimetry of radioimmunotherapy within the focusing on and supply of radiation ·describes tumor architectures and descriptions novel constructs for radionuclide supply ·analyzes a number of superior concentrating on techniques, together with pretargeting contextual research of extracorporeal recommendations in radioimmunotherapy ·details reviews from the radiotherapy of lymphoma, stable tumors, and ovarian melanoma and the special radiotherapy of neuroblastoma and squamous head and neck melanoma ·and even more! With contributions from approximately 50 foreign specialists and containing over 1300 literature references, drawings, images, tables, and equations, Radioimmunotherapy of melanoma is a useful and fundamental reference for physicians in nuclear drugs and clinical physicists; oncologists, radiologists, radiochemists, and radiopharmacists; immunologists, pulmonologists, and melanoma researchers; pharmacologists and drug supply pharmaceutical chemists; and upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and scientific tuition scholars in those disciplines.

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