This volume is the first truly international text to take the practitioner from the history, the physical basis, and the rationale of brachytherapy through to the techniques, the results, and the management of complications. It is also the first truly comprehensive and complete textbook of brachytherapy. The chapters on the physics of brachytherapy and the technical planning of internal and surface radiotherapy are designed to enhance the practitioner’s knowledge base and capabilities in this demanding specialty field. Disease site-specific chapters cover a wide range of applications, including ocular tumors, soft tissue sarcomas, cancers of the head and neck, skin, breast, lung, esophagus, and prostate, and gynecologic and anorectal malignancies. Each chapter incorporates the American and European guidelines and the text has been written from both perspectives by many of the most noted global experts in the field. A concluding chapter is devoted to brachytherapy quality assurance.
1. Introduction
2. History of Brachytherapy
3. Physics: The Physics of Brachytherapy
4. Physics: Low Energy Brachytherapy Physics
5. Physics: Balloon Brachytherapy Physics
6. Ocular
7. Head and Neck
8. Skin
9. Sarcoma
10. Breast: Interstitial
11. Breast: Intracavitary Balloon
12. Breast: Permanent Breast Seed implant (PBSI)
13.
Breast: Management of Ipsilateral Breast tumor Recurrence (IBTR)
14. Thoracic: Lung and Chest Wall
15. Thoracic: Esophagus
16. Hepatic Brachytherapy
17. Gynecologic: Corpus Uteri
18. Gynecologic: Cervix
19. Gynecologic: Vulva
20. Gynecologic: Vagina
21. Gynecologic: Image Guidance in Gynecologic Brachytherapy
22. Prostate: Low dose rate interstitial
23. Prostate: High dose rate interstitial
24. Rectum and Anus
25. Brachytherapy Quality Assurance
Index
This volume is the first truly international text to take the practitioner from the history, the physical basis, and the rationale of brachytherapy through to the techniques, the results, and the management of complications. It is also the first truly comprehensive and complete textbook of brachytherapy. The chapters on the physics of brachytherapy and the technical planning of internal and surface radiotherapy are designed to enhance the practitioner’s knowledge base and capabilities in this demanding specialty field. Disease site-specific chapters cover a wide range of applications, including ocular tumors, soft tissue sarcomas, cancers of the head and neck, skin, breast, lung, esophagus, and prostate, and gynecologic and anorectal malignancies. Each chapter incorporates the American and European guidelines and the text has been written from both perspectives by many of the most noted global experts in the field. A concluding chapter is devoted to brachytherapy quality assurance.
Covers both the physics and the clinical applications of brachytherapy, including techniques, results, and management of complications
Incorporates the American and European guidelines on brachytherapy
Written by international experts in the field
