Palliative Radiation Oncology

Description:



Offering practical, comprehensive coverage of the many nuanced technical and clinical aspects of this growing field, Palliative Radiation Oncology provides up-to-date clinical guidance in a thorough yet concise manner. In an easy-access format, it integrates basic science, pathologies, and research with clinical applications, covering different ways to approach problems, tumor assessment, precise target definition, and dosing-specific guidelines to minimize side effects/toxicities while balancing with desired outcomes. 

Table Of Contents:

SECTION I. FOUNDATIONS/PRINCIPLES OF PALLIATIVE CARE IN ONCOLOGY

Chapter 1: Definition of Palliative Care

• Include: What is palliative care? How does palliative care differ from standard oncologic care? How does palliative care augment traditional oncologic care?

Chapter 2: An introduction to Prognostication

• Also include prognostication in each of the chapters in Section II

Chapter 3: Basic Communication Frameworks

• Include evidence basis for communication, Serious Illness Conversation Project and Vitaltalk

Chapter 4: Troubleshooting Difficult Conversations

Chapter 5: Symptom Management: Pain and Physical Symptoms

Chapter 6: Management of Psychosocial and Spiritual Distress

Chapter 7: Models of Multidisciplinary Management

• Include: - how to integrate palliative care into broader oncologic care (integration with surgery, med onc, etc.) and a separate section on models for delivery of palliative radiotherapy - how best to integrate

SECTION II. FOUNDATIONS/PRINCIPLES OF PALLIATIVE RADIATION BY BODY SITE AND MANAGEMENT OF TREATMENT-RELATED TOXICITIES

Chapter 8: Palliative Radiation

• When is it worth it and when is it not?

Chapter 9: Oligometastases

Chapter 10: Brain: Metastatic and Non-Metastatic

Chapter 11: Head and Neck

Chapter 12: Thorax

Chapter 13: Breast/Chest wall/Skin

Chapter 14: Abdomen

Chapter 15: Pelvis

Chapter 16: Extremities

Chapter 17: Pediatrics: CNS and Non-CNS

Chapter 18: Hematologic Malignancies (leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma)

Chapter 19: Bone

Chapter 20: Spine

• Include in each chapter symptom management by site, broadly and radiation-induced side effects

SECTION III. TECHNIQUES AND MODALITIES

Chapter 21: Selecting Modalities

• Include SRS – CNS/extracranial; IMRT/IGRT, SBRT

Chapter 22: Selecting Doses

Chapter 23: Selecting Volume

Chapter 24: "Simple" Techniques for Simulation and Treatment

Chapter 25: Non-Traditional Modalities for Palliation

• Include IORT, brachy, hyperthermia, protons

Chapter 26: Considerations Involving Re-Irradiation