Radiotherapy in clinical practice

The book is intended as a source book for both expert radiotherapy practitioner and trainee and contributors comprise a range of specialists from London, Birmingham, Cambridge, Leeds and Manchester. The subject is discussed under the following headings: clinical aspects of radiobiology (dose-rate effect, novel fractionation schemes, dose-modifying chemicals), radiosensitizers, urological malignancies, breast cancer, head and neck cancer, soft tissue and bone sarcomas, intrathoracic tumours, Hodgkins and non-Hodgkins lymphomas, gynaecological radiotherapy, children's tumours, adult haematological malignancy, skin malignancy, endocrine tumours, gastrointestinal carcinomas, the C.N.S., interstitial therapy, benign conditions, the radiographer's view of patient management, a physicist's role, drug-radiation combination therapy. (U.K.)