Innovations in radiation oncology

1 General Aspects.- 1.1 Quality of Treatment: An Overview of the Patterns of Care Study in Clinical Radiation Therapy.- 1.2 Predictive Assays.- 1.3 Quality of Survival.- 2 Conservation Therapy.- 2.1 Head and Neck.- 2.1.1 Functional Surgery and Radiotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer.- 2.1.2 Uveal Melanoma: Conservative Treatment with Radiation Therapy.- 2.2 Breast.- 2.1.1 Conservative Therapy for Breast Cancer.- 2.2.2 Responses to Treatment and Quality of Life After Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer.- 2.3 Soft Tissue Sarcoma.- 2.3.1 UCLA Combined Modality Limb Salvage Protocols for Soft Tissue Sarcomas.- 2.3.2 M.D. Anderson Hospital Experience.- 2.4 Rectum and Anal Canal.- 2.4.1 Conservative Management of Cancer of the Rectum.- 2.4.2 Treatment of Cancer of the Anal Canal.- 3 Extended Field Therapy.- 3.1 Total Body Irradiation for Bone Marrow Transplantation.- 3.2 Influence of Radiation Regimens on the Risk of Interstitial Pneumonitis in Leukemia Patients Treated with Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation.- 3.3 Total Lymphoid Irradiation for Immunosuppression.- 3.4 Half Body Radiotherapy.- 3.5 Targeted Radionuclides.- 4 Restricted Field Therapy.- 4.1 Intraoperative Radiotherapy.- 4.2 Precision Pencil-Beam Radiation Therapy for Pituitary Adenomas.- 4.3 Stereotaxic Interstitial Brachytherapy for Malignant Brain Tumors.- 4.4 Photodynamic Therapy.- 5 New Imaging Technologies and Radiotherapy.- 5.1 CT in Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning.- 5.2 The Potential Application of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in Radiation Oncology.- 5.3 Applications of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in Tumor Management.- 6 Modified Fractionation.- 6.1 Hyperfractionation.- 6.2 Accelerated Fractionation.- 6.3 Accelerated Hyperfractionation.- 7 Drugs and Radiation.- 7.1 Sensitizers in Radiotherapy.- 7.2 Optimizing Combinations of Drugs and Radiation. The Interdigitated Alternating Regimen.- 8 Neutrons.- 8.1 Fast Neutron Therapy: Problems and Promise.- 9 Adjunctive Therapies.- 9.1 Externally Induced Hyperthermia.- 9.2 Interstitial Hyperthermia.- 9.3 Internal Fixation and Irradiation for Bone Metastases.