Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy(Hardcover)

Description

This book is a comprehensive review of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT):
its physics, clinical evidence, indications, and future directions. The utilization of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)
and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is increasing internationally because of several factors.
First, it offers patients a local treatment option that has demonstrated effectiveness similar to traditional surgery
without the morbidity of general anesthesia and open surgical resection.

Second, recent advancements in the quality of scientific evidence supporting a SRS or SBRT-containing approach in
patients continues to evolve and demonstrate favorable disease-specific outcomes with little, if any, toxicity in
various anatomic disease sites and for various conditions including cancer, benign tumors, and other psychiatric and
neurologic conditions.

Third, and most provocatively, is the notion that definitive local therapy (i.e. SRS or SBRT) in patients with cancer
can boost the immune system to fight cancer in other sites throughout the body. While traditional medical knowledge
would suggest that all patients with metastatic cancer are incurable, there is a mounting body of evidence that there
is a subset of these patients that can be cured with definitive SRS or SBRT.
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Part I. Radiobiology of Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

Part II. Intracranial Radiosurgery Technique

Part III. Intracranial Radiosurgery by Indication

Part IV. Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Technique

Part V. Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy by Indication

Part VI. The Future of Radiosurgery and SBRT