This book summarizes the do’s and don’ts of managing a patient receiving radiotherapy as well as how to manage common day to day situations that one comes across in radiation oncology practice. It serves as a useful guide for radiation oncology practitioners for practical exams. This book offers assistance to young radiotherapists in handling cancer patients.
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
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
Ashutosh Mukherji
Basics of radiation oncology practice Radiotherapy in cancer management Patient positioning and simulation Brachytherapy Radio-sensitizers and radio-protectors Radiaton Oncology
“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)