Radiation Oncology in Palliative Cancer Care (eBook)

Stephen Lutz is one of only a small number of Radiation Oncologists who is also board certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.?He has served as the liaison between the US radiotherapy and palliative care communities for the past several years. His main research interests have included the formation of palliative radiotherapy treatment guidelines as well as the collaboration between the two specialties with regard to research, education, and patient advocacy. Edward Chow is a Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto?and is a senior scientist in the Sunnybrook Research Institute. He is Chair of the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program and Bone Metastases Site Group in the Odette Cancer Center at?Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Peter Hoskin is a UK clinical oncologist with long standing research interests in palliative radiotherapy, in particular the management of bone metastases and spinal cord compression. He was a clinical research fellow in Palliative Medicine working in opioid pharmacology before focusing his interests in clinical oncology and was Chair of the International Consensus in Palliative Radiotherapy in 2000 and ESTRO Co-chair in 2010. He has written extensively on the role of radiotherapy in palliative care in original publications and major book chapters.

Contributors

Foreword

Part 1 General principles of radiation oncology

A Brief History of Palliative Radiation Oncology
Joshua Jones

The Radiobiology of Palliative Radiation Oncology
Candice Johnstone

The Physics of Palliative Radiation Oncology
Shaun Baggarley & Jiade Lu

Curative Intent versus Purely Palliative Intent Radiation Oncology
Vassilios Vassiliou & Haris Charalambous

Side Effects of Palliative Radiation Oncology
Alysa Fairchild

Part 2 General principles of palliation and symptom control

6 A History of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Michelle Winslow & Marcia Meldrum

7 The Current Status of Hospice
Charles F. von Gunten, Frank D. Ferris, & A.J. Mundt

8 The Current Status of Palliative Care
Tom Smith & Susannah Yovino

9 Pain Management
Erin McMenamin

10 Palliative Care in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
Henry Ddungu & Elizabeth Barnes

Part 3 Locally advanced or locally recurrent diseases

11 Primary Tumors of the Central Nervous System
Caroline Chung & Eric Chang

12 Head & Neck Cancer
Albert Tiong & June Corry

13 Breast Cancer
Ian Kunkler

14 Lung Cancer
George Rodrigues & Benjamin Movsas

15 Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Cancer
Rob Glynne-Jones & Mark Harrison

16 Genitourinary Malignancies
Gillian Duchesne

17 Gynecologic Cancer
Firuza Patel

18 Hematologic Malignancies
David Howell

19 Pediatric Cancers
Tamara Vern-Gross

Part 4 Metastatic Disease

20 Metastatic Bone Disease
Yvette van der Linden & Dirk Rades

21 Spinal Cord Compression
Ernesto Maranzano & Fabio Trippa

22 Brain metastases
May Tsao

23 Liver Metastases
Sean Bydder

24 Malignant Neuropathic Pain, Adrenal, Choroidal and Skin Metastases
Daniel E Roos & Aaron H. Wolfson

Part 5 Integration of Radiation Oncology and Palliative Care

25 Design Challenges in Palliative Radiotherapy Clinical Trials
Deb Watkins Bruner & Lawrence Berk

26 Radiation Oncology Cost Effectiveness
Andre Konski

27 Quality measures of palliative radiotherapy
James Hayman, Rinaa Punglia & Anushree M. Vichare

28 Technologically Advanced Palliative Radiation Oncology
Simon Lo, Bin S. Teh, Samuel T. Chao, Arjun Sahgal, Nina A. Mayr & Eric L. Chang

"This is an excellent book that addresses a crucial aspect
of radiotherapy in a way that I have not seen before. It is concise
and easy to digest, but also packed with information that will help
guide healthcare professionals in their practice. It would be
useful for palliative care clinicians and medical oncologists, but
is of particular use as a reference text to radiation oncologists
and their trainees." (European Journal of Palliative
Care, 21 April 2014)