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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 3 February 2005
- ISBN 9780198529408
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 233x157x13 mm
- Weight 353 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous black & white photographs and line illustrations and 8pp colour plates 0
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Short description:
Brachytherapy is a procedure in which radioactive material sealed in needles, seeds, wires or catheters is placed directly into or near a tumour (also called internal radiation, implant radiation or interstitial radiation therapy). This book provides practical guidance on the use of brachytherapy. It takes the reader through the basic principles and covers physics, dosimetry and protection issues, before developing this by discussing individual sites on which the procedure can be
used.
Long description:
Brachytherapy is the delivery of radiation therapy using sealed sources which are placed as close as possible to the site to be treated. It is applicable for the treatment of tumours where a radiation source can be placed within a body cavity such as the oesophagus or bronchus or where the tumour is accessible to needle or catheter sources being placed within it, such as the head and neck and skin. Brachytherapy has potential applications to most tumour sites. It can be used as
primary treatment or in combination with external beam radiotherapy.
This book provides practical guidance on the use of brachytherapy. Each chapter provides the reader with a solid background in the physics and dosimetry of brachytherapy followed by practical information on the use of brachytherapy in common disease sites. Whilst low, medium, and high dose rate techniques are covered, emphasis is placed on high dose rate afterloading techniques which are likely to replace most other forms of brachytherapy over the next decade.
ABOUT THE SERIES:
Radiotherapy remains the major non-surgical treatment modality for the management of malignant disease. It is based on the application of the principles of applied physics, radiobiology, and tumour biology to clinical practice. Each volume in this series takes the reader through the basic principles of the use of ionising radiation and then develops this by individual sites. This series of practical handbooks are aimed at physicians both training and practising in radiotherapy, as well as
medical physicists, dosimetrists, radiographers and senior nurses.
Written by leading British experts in this field, this small book manages to make brachytherapy understandable to physicians and other professionals. The short, clear chapters, full of helpful illustrations, provide readers with the scientific fundamentals in technique, and with practical guidelines on its use in common disease sites.
Table of Contents:
Isotopes and delivery systems for brachytherapy
Principles of brachytherapy dosimetry
Radiation protection issues in brachytherapy
The role of brachytherapy in head and neck cancer
Brachtherapy for uterine tumours: cervix and endometrium
Prostate cancer: permanent seed brachytherapy and high dose-rate afterloading brachytherapy
Endolumenal brachytherapy: bronchus and oesophagus
Perineal implants: anal canal, vagina and vulva
Breast brachytherapy
The role of brachytherapy in miscellaneous sites
Endovascular brachytherapy
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