By Yasushi Nagata
This publication serves as a pragmatic advisor for using stereotactic physique radiation treatment in clinics. at the foundation of greater than 10 years of medical event with lung melanoma, liver melanoma and different cancers, a impressive quantity of data has been accrued. even as, nice growth in suggestions has been completed. numerous new solving apparatuses, new breathing rules strategies, new dose fractionation schedules and new image-guided radiation treatment machines were constructed. This booklet reports the heritage of these advancements and stories on a number of sorts of toxicities. evaluate of contemporary medical stories can be integrated. The authors have been key contributors of the JCOG 0403 scientific trials on stereotactic physique radiation treatment (SBRT) for either inoperable and operableT1N0M0 fundamental lung melanoma. Readers will study of the very best results got with SBRT for lung melanoma and different cancers when it comes to neighborhood keep watch over and toxicities. With its functional concentration, this e-book will gain radiation oncologists, scientific physicists, scientific dosimetrists, radiation therapists and senior nurses in addition to scientific oncologists and surgical oncologists who're attracted to radiotherapy.
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