Libri di Nora A. Janjan

- This clinical guidebook allows for quick, authoritative access to the latest and best multimodality therapies - Includes AJCC staging of gastrointestinal malignancies - Each chapter ends with an up-to-date list of suggested readings and 'key practice points' making it a usefuly at-a-glance reference - Text includes 80 illustrations

Given that treatment with curative intent is possible in only one-half of cancer victims, and that such treatment frequently fails, the majority of patients with cancer will require relief of symptoms and signs caused by their disease. In this book, the specific contribution of radiation therapy to palliation is considered within the context of multidisciplinary management. Individual chapters are devoted to palliative radiation therapy for primary tumours and metastases at different sites. The management of pain is discussed, and chapters are also devoted to end of life care, the management of complications of radiation therapy, and useful medications. This book will prove useful to radiation oncologists and medical students.