INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY. CLINICAL EVIDENCE AND TECHNIQUES

1. History of IMRT
2. Principles of IMRT
3. Radiobiology for IMRT
4. Treatment Planning of IMRT for Head and Neck Malignancies
5. IGRT for IMRT
6. Adaptive Radiation Therapy in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer
7. Brain Tumor: How Should We Manage Glioblastoma in the Era of IMRT?
8. Nasopharyngeal Cancer
9. Oropharyngeal Cancer
10. Postoperative Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancers: A Case-Based Review
11. Sequelae of Therapy of Head and Neck Cancer: Their Prevention and Therapy
12. Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
13. Mesothelioma
14. Breast Cancer
15. Clinical Application of IMRT for Cervical Esophageal Cancer
16. Thoracic Esophageal Cancer
17. Anal Canal Cancer
18. Early Prostate Cancer (T1–2N0M0)
19. Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy for Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer
20. Gynecologic Malignancies
21. Pediatric Cancers

Successful clinical use of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) represents a significant advance in radiation oncology. Because IMRT can deliver high-dose radiation to a target with a reduced dose to the surrounding organs, it can improve the local control rate and reduce toxicities associated with radiation therapy. Since IMRT began being used in the mid-1990s, a large volume of clinical evidence of the advantages of IMRT has been collected. However, treatment planning and quality assurance (QA) of IMRT are complicated and difficult for the clinician and the medical physicist. This book, by authors renowned for their expertise in their fields, provides cumulative clinical evidence and appropriate techniques for IMRT for the clinician and the physicist. Part I deals with the foundations and techniques, history, principles, QA, treatment planning, radiobiology and related aspects of IMRT. Part II covers clinical applications with several case studies, describing contouring and dose distribution with clinical results along with descriptions of indications and a review of clinical evidence for each tumor site. The information presented in this book serves as a valuable resource for the practicing clinician and physicist.

Features
• Provides accumulated clinical evidence and proper techniques for IMRT
• Contains case studies of IMRT clinical application for each cancer site
• Serves clinicians and medical physicists as a valuable resource for daily IMRT practice