Potential Role of Proton Therapy in the Management of Lymphoma Nancy Price Mendenhall Daniel Yeung The radiation doses required to secure local control in lymphomas are in the range of…

Breast Shannon M. MacDonald Alphonse G. Taghian The advantage of proton radiation is well established for tumors that lie adjacent to critical structures and require high doses of radiation.1, 2,…

Gynecologic Carcinoma Takashi Nakano Yoshiyuki Suzuki Shingo Kato Tatsuya Ohno Thomas F. DeLaney The combination of external beam radiotherapy and intracavitary brachytherapy is considered to be one of the standard…

Prostate Anthony L. Zietman William U. Shipley Hiroshi Tsuji Prostate cancer, along with breast and lung cancer, constitute a significant proportion of the cases seen by the practicing radiation oncologist….

Gastrointestinal Malignancies Koichi Tokuuye Hirotoshi Kato Shigeru Yamada Tadashi Kamada Yasuyuki Akine Hirohiko Tsujii The presence of dose-limiting hepatic and renal parenchyma, as well as bowel adjacent to the tumor,…

Lung David A. Bush Despite intensive research into new treatment strategies, lung cancer continues to be a major health problem worldwide and remains the most frequent cause of cancer death…

Head and Neck CHAPTER 16.A PARANASAL SINUS AND NASAL CAVITY Pascal Pommier Marco Krengli Allan F. Thornton Jun-Etsu Mizoe Daniela Schulz-Ertner Jean-Jacques Mazeron Radiotherapy (RT) plays a fundamental role in…

Bone and Soft Tissue Thomas F. DeLaney David G. Kirsch RADIATION THERAPY FOR SARCOMAS Contemporary management of sarcomas often includes a multidisciplinary approach using a combination of surgery, radiotherapy, and…

Treatment Delivery Systems CHAPTER 5.A PASSIVE BEAM SCATTERING Bernard Gottschalk The particle beam transported from the accelerator to the treatment area is as small as possible to reduce the cost…