Gunderson Tepper's Clinical Radiation Oncology 2nd edition

Gunderson Tepper's Clinical Radiation Oncology 2nd edition by Leonard L. Gunderson and Joel E. Tepper provides the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date information available for treating patients with cancer. Featuring a multidisciplinary perspective, the text examines the therapeutic management of specific disease sites based on both single-modality and combined-modality approaches - providing you with the well-rounded, cutting-edge guidance you need to offer the most effective treatments. A consistent chapter format throughout - paired with an all-new full-color design - makes reference fast and easy.


Key Features 

• Chapters this includes a "Front Page Format" summarizing some of the most important issues for the disease site and a closing section that include a "Treatment Algorithm" along with a discussion of controversies or challenges that remain.
• Offers broad multi-modality perspectives on the field with a diverse team of respected editors and contributors drawn from institutions from across the country.
• Describes the scientific foundations of radiation oncology and general oncology as well as state-of-the-art techniques and modalities.
• Examines the therapeutic management of specific disease sites based on a single-modality and combined-modality approaches.
• Presents a clinically focused approach to help you implement the most effective treatment for each patient.

New in this edition 

• Features a full-color design throughout and over 700 color figures which clearly depict treatment techniques; this allows for more complete integration of text, tables, and figures thus making key information easier to locate.
• Adds a "Diagnostic Algorithm" to disease-site chapters that highlights key tests and procedures in the initial work-up and follow-up of patients.
• Features new chapters in the Scientific Foundations Section (Biologics and Interactions with Radiation), Related Cancer Disciplines (Imaging - CT, MRI, Imaging - Nuclear Medicine, Health Services Research) and the Disease Site Sections (Meningiomas, Ependymomas and other Adult Brain Tumors; Management of the Neck; Melanoma; Uncommon Thoracic Malignancies; Penile Cancer, Benign Diseases).
• Offers comprehensive updates throughout to reflect the latest developments, including advances in biology, technology and single or multi-disciplinary treatment of a variety of malignancies.

Book Details 
 

• Hardcover: 1888 pages
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone; 2 edition (December 7, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0443068402
• ISBN-13: 9780443068409
• Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.8 x 2.7 inches
• List Price: $269.00 

Newer edition of this book:
Clinical Radiation Oncology, 3rd Edition (Expert Consult Series) 

Kindle edition:
Clinical Radiation Oncology, 3rd Edition (Expert Consult Series) [eBook]

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