Principles and practice of brachytherapy

Dedication Acknowledgments Contributors Preface I. Basic Principles:Principles of Brachytherapy History of Brachytherapy: The Years After the Discovery of Radium and Radioactivity Radiobiology Basic Physics of Brachytherapy Instrumentation and Equipment Calibration of Brachytherapy Sources Quality Assurance in Brachytherapy Brachytherapy Treatment Planning Imaging Applications in Brachytherapy Radiation Protection II. Clinical Body Sites:Brachytherapy for Skin Cancer Interstitial Radiation Therapy for Brain Tumours Brachytherapy for Cancer of the Head and Neck Brachytherapy for Ocular Disease Esophageal Brachytherapy Brachytherapy of Lung Cancer Breast Extrahepatic Bile Duct and Liver Cancer Cancer of the Pancreas Endocavitary and Brachytherapy Techniques in the Conservative Mamagement of Anorectal Cancers Brahytherapy for Prostate Cancer Bladder Cancer of the Female Urethra Brachytherapy for Cancer of the Penis Low-Dose-Rate Intracavity Brachytherapy for Carcinoma of the Uterine Cerix High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy for Cervical Carcinoma Interstitial Implantation of Gynecologic Malignancies Brachytherapy for Endometrial Carcinoma Cancer of the Vagina Soft Tissue Sarcomas Brachytherapy for Pediatric Tumors III. Special Topics:Nursing Management of the Brachytherapy Patient Pulsed Low-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy Interstitial Thermo-Brachytherapy Californium-252 Neutron Brachytherapy Endovascular Brachytherapy Brachytherapy in the New Millennium In Memoriam Index