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Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy - A Comprehensive Guide (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy - A Comprehensive Guide (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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This book is a comprehensive review of stereotactic radiosurgery
(SRS) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT): its physics,
clinical evidence, indications, and future directions. The
utilization of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic
body radiation therapy (SBRT) is increasing internationally because
of several factors. First, it offers patients a local treatment
option that has demonstrated effectiveness similar to traditional
surgery without the morbidity of general anesthesia and open
surgical resection. Second, recent advancements in the quality of
scientific evidence supporting a SRS or SBRT-containing approach in
patients continues to evolve and demonstrate favorable
disease-specific outcomes with little, if any, toxicity in various
anatomic disease sites and for various conditions including cancer,
benign tumors, and other psychiatric and neurologic conditions.
Third, and most provocatively, is the notion that definitive local
therapy (i.e. SRS or SBRT) in patients with cancer can boost the
immune system to fight cancer in other sites throughout the body.
While traditional medical knowledge would suggest that all patients
with metastatic cancer are incurable, there is a mounting body of
evidence that there is a subset of these patients that can be cured
with definitive SRS or SBRT. This volume thus delves into each of
these benefits and aspects of treatment, guiding physicians to the
best treatment plan for their patients. Expert, international
authors provide guidelines for SRS and SBRT use by clinicians.
Chapters are divided into six main sections: Radiobiology of
Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy, Intracranial
Radiosurgery Technique, Intracranial Radiosurgery by Indication,
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Technique, Stereotactic Body
Radiation Therapy by Indication, The Future of Radiosurgery and
SBRT. Overall physics are explained, as well as specific
considerations for particular surgical tools (including the Leksell
Gamma Knife and Accuray CyberKnife), techniques (including
fractionated and charged particle radiosurgery), and anatomic sites
(including brain metastases, pituitary tumors, and the prostate).
Detailed images and charts enhance the chapters. This book provides
physicians with a single, practical resource incorporating both of
these broad categories of treatment, SRS and SBRT, and better
defines the current role and the direction of radiosurgery.
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