Breast Cancer: Stage Tis

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Breast Cancer: Stage Tis David E. Wazer and Douglas W. Arthur Noninvasive carcinoma of the breast (stage Tis) includes Paget’s disease of the nipple and two histopathologic entities that are…

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Radioimmunotherapy and Unsealed Radionuclide Therapy

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Radioimmunotherapy and Unsealed Radionuclide Therapy Tod W. Speer IMMUNOLOGY AND TARGETING CONSTRUCTS Immunity refers to protection from disease or infectious agents.1 Our immune system is composed of the cells and…

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Hyperthermia as a Treatment Modality

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Hyperthermia as a Treatment Modality Mark W. Dewhirst, Paul Stauffer, Zeljko Vujaskovic, Chelsea D. Landon, and Leonard R. Prosnitz The rationale for combining hyperthermia (HT) with radiation (RT) rests on…

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Altered Fractionation Schedules

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Altered Fractionation Schedules Anesa Ahamad This chapter discusses radiotherapy fractionation schedules that are different from the conventional fractionation in the United States of 1.8- to 2-Gy doses given once daily,…

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Proton Therapy

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Proton Therapy Nancy Price Mendenhall and Zuofeng Li The burgeoning interest in proton therapy is related to its potential to improve the therapeutic ratio for many malignancies treated with radiation….

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Carbon Ions

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Carbon Ions Pascal Pommier, Stephanie E. Combs, and Tadashi Kamada PRESENT STATUS AND PERSPECTIVE FOR CARBON IONS Carbon ion therapy is an innovative radiotherapy modality that is mostly dedicated to…

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Radiation Oncology in the Developing World

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Radiation Oncology in the Developing World Timothy P. Hanna One of the greatest challenges facing the international radiation oncology community and all other domains of cancer control is the burden…

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Photodynamic Therapy

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Photodynamic Therapy Harry Quon, Charles B. Simone, II, Keith A. Cengel, Jarod C. Finlay, Timothy C. Zhu, and Theresa M. Busch The first report of cytotoxicity (in paramecium) observed by…

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Chemical Modifiers of Radiation Response

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Chemical Modifiers of Radiation Response David S. Yoo and David M. Brizel Chemical agents have been administered in conjunction with radiotherapy (RT) for both the enhancement of antitumor therapeutic efficacy…

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