(PDF) Handbook of Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology by Krishnan

This is the PDF eBook version for Handbook of Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology by Monica S Krishnan, Margarita Racsa, Hsiang-Hsuan Michael Yu

Table of Contents

Part I: Issues in Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology 1. General Approach to Palliative Care and Palliative Radiation Oncology 2. Communication 3. Prognostication in Patients Receiving Palliative Radiation Therapy 4. Palliative Care, Hospice Care, Advance Care Planning, and Advance Directives 5. Palliative Care Assessment

Part II: Symptom Management for Palliative Radiation Oncology Practitioners 6. Pain Management 7. GI Symptoms: Radiation-Induced Adverse Effects 8. Management of Dyspnea and Central Airway Obstruction in Patients With Malignancy 9. Malignant Bleeding 10. Skin Toxicity in Palliative Radiation Therapy

Part III: Disease-Specific Management for Palliative Radiation Oncology Practitioners 11. Palliative Radiotherapy for Brain Metastasis 12. Palliative Radiotherapy for Malignant Epidural Spinal Cord Compression 13. Palliative Radiotherapy for Bone Metastasis 14. Site-Specific Symptom Management: Palliative Radiotherapy for Advanced and Metastatic Lung Cancer 15. Palliative Radiation Oncology for Gastrointestinal Tract Malignancies 16. Palliative Radiotherapy for Advanced and Metastatic Gynecologic and Genitourinary Malignancies 17. Palliative Radiotherapy for Advanced and Metastatic Head and Neck Cancers and Skin Metastases