Lung and Central Airway Malignancies
7 Lung and Central Airway Malignancies Sarah Baker and Alysa Fairchild INTRODUCTION Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide, with 1.8 million patients diagnosed in 2012.1 75%…
Bone Metastases
3 Bone Metastases Pei Shuen Lim and Peter J. Hoskin INTRODUCTION Approximately 50% of the workload in a radiation therapy (RT) department is comprised of palliative work, of which the…
Brain Metastases
5 Brain Metastases Mohammad Hasan and May N. Tsao INTRODUCTION Demographics Metastatic disease to the brain is the most common intracranial tumor.1 The incidence of brain metastases is at least…
Head and Neck
6 Head and Neck Albert Tiong and June Corry INTRODUCTION Head and neck cancers encompass a wide variety of anatomic subsites and histologies, though most commonly they are squamous cell…
Patient Selection and Life Expectancy Tools
2 Patient Selection and Life Expectancy Tools Srinivas Raman, Nicholas Chiu, Na Zhang, and Edward Chow INTRODUCTION Life expectancy estimates for advanced cancer patients are necessary considerations in the fields…
Abdominal and Pelvic Malignancies
8 Abdominal and Pelvic Malignancies Sushmita Ghoshal, Bhavana Rai, and Raviteja Miriyala INTRODUCTION Radiation oncologists have long understood the potential benefit of radiation therapy (RT) in palliating the distressing symptoms…
Liver Malignancies
9 Liver Malignancies Jared R. Robbins INTRODUCTION Each year in the United States there are estimated to be over 45,000 cases of primary liver and biliary system malignancies with over…
Malignant Spinal Cord Compression
4 Malignant Spinal Cord Compression Randy Li-Hung Wei and Kavita V. Dharmarajan INTRODUCTION Epidemiology Malignant spinal cord compression (MSCC) occurs when a soft-tissue tumor or pathological fracture of the spinal…
Introduction
1 Introduction Candice Johnstone Cancer is a global problem with an estimated 14.1 million new cancer cases worldwide, 32.6 million people living with cancer, and 8.2 million cancer deaths in…
