Radiation Oncology/TOC
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
[edit] Preface
[edit] Treatment by Disease Site
[edit] Central Nervous System Tumors
- Introduction
- Glioma
- Meningioma
- Primary CNS Lymphoma
- Pineal Gland Tumors
- Metastatic to brain
- CSF involvement
- Spine
- Miscellaneous CNS Tumors
- Craniopharyngioma
- Germinoma
- Ependymoma
- Optic Pathway Glioma
- Brainstem Glioma
- Pilocytic Astrocytoma
- Medulloblastoma
- CNS PNET
- Pineal Gland tumors
- Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor (AT/RT)
- Retinoblastoma
Benign:
- Acoustic Neuroma (Vestibular Schwannoma)
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Sphenopalatine Neuralgia
- Chronic Cluster Headaches
- Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM)
- Cavernous Malformation
- Glomus Jugulare (Paraganglioma)
- Cancer pain
[edit] Skull Base Tumors
[edit] Head and Neck Tumors
- General Head and Neck
- Post-operative Head and Neck
- Oral cavity
- Pharynx:
- Larynx
- Sinonasal tumors:
- Salivary glands
- Unknown primary
- Thyroid
- IMRT
[edit] Eye and Orbit
[edit] Thoracic Tumors
[edit] Gastrointestinal Tumors
- Esophagus
- Stomach
- Gastrointestinal stromal tumors
- Pancreas
- Bile duct (Cholangiocarcinoma)
- Gall bladder
- Liver
- Small intestine
- Colon
- Rectum
- Anal canal
[edit] Genitourinary Tumors
Benign
[edit] Gynecologic Tumors
[edit] Breast Cancer
[edit] Hematologic Malignancies
- Hodgkin lymphoma
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Primary CNS lymphoma
- Leukemia
- Multiple myeloma and plasmacytoma
- Waldenstroms macroglobulinemia
- Mycosis fungoides
- Cutaneous B-cell lymphoma
- Spleen Irradiation
- Total Body Irradiation
- Miscellaneous
[edit] Sarcoma
Soft tissue tumors:
- Soft tissue sarcomas
- Retroperitoneal sarcomas
- Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
- Synovial sarcoma
- Angiosarcoma
- Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor
- Malignant Intracerebral Nerve Sheath Tumor
- Hemangiopericytoma
- EBV-associated Smooth Muscle Tumor (EBV-SMT)
Bone tumors:
Benign:
[edit] Skin
- Melanoma
- Non-melanoma skin cancer
- Merkel cell carcinoma
- Kaposi's sarcoma
- Eccrine Porocarcinoma
- Extramammary Paget's disease
[edit] Neuroendocrine Tumors
- Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid
- Small cell lung cancer
- Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the lung
- Paraganglioma
- Adrenocortical Carcinoma
- Merkel cell
- Neuroblastoma
[edit] Germ cell tumors
[edit] Pediatric Tumors
- Brain Tumors
- Nephroblastoma (Wilms')
- Neuroblastoma
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Retinoblastoma
- Ewing's sarcoma
- Bone PNET
- Pediatric Hodgkin's
- Burkitt's Lymphoma
[edit] Miscellaneous Tumors
[edit] Benign Non-Neoplastic Diseases
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Sphenopalatine Neuralgia
- Chronic Cluster Headaches
- Acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma)
- Graves' Disease
- Heterotopic ossification
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Heel Spurs
- Keloid
- Angiomyxoma
- Peyronie's Disease
- Vascular Brachytherapy
- Arteriovenous malformation
- Cavernous malformation
[edit] Palliation
- Overview of palliation
- Superior vena cava syndrome
- Spinal cord compression
- Bone mets
- Brain mets
- NSCLC palliation
- Pelvic palliation
[edit] Level I Evidence (Prospective Randomized Trials)
[edit] Treatment toxicity
- Grading of toxicity
- NTCP (Normal tissue complication probability)
- Normal tissue tolerance (Emami estimates)
- Brain
- Vision
- Head & Neck
- Heart
- Lung
- Esophagus
- Small bowel
- Genitourinary
- Bone marrow
- Second malignancies
- Skin
[edit] Supportive Care
- Supportive care (general)
- Anemia
- Cachexia
- Dyspnea
- Fatigue
- Gastrointestinal symptoms
- Skin care
- Head and neck
- Hot flashes
- Neurologic symptoms
- Pain
- Thromboembolism
[edit] Radiation Techniques
- External Beam
- Brachytherapy
- Intraoperative RT (IORT)
- Unsealed sources
- Particle Therapy
- Hyperthermia
[edit] Treatment Planning
- Contraindications to radiotherapy
- Anatomy
- Bone marrow distribution
- Examples of treatment fields
- Tumor motion
- IMRT
- Devices used in simulation
- Treatment of patients with pacemakers
[edit] Other Topics
[edit] Cancer Syndromes
[edit] Radiobiology
- Classic radiobiology
- Molecular radiobiology
- Effect of time to treatment and overall treatment time
- Cancer biology
- Antibodies
- Small molecules
- Radiation modulators
- Radiation Sensitizers
- Radiation Protectors
- List of Chromosomes and their related cancer genes
- Tumor markers
[edit] Radiation Physics
[edit] Medical Statistics
[edit] Cost-Effectiveness
[edit] Health Technology Assessment
[edit] Drugs
- Chemotherapy drugs
- Chemotherapy combinations
- Endocrine drugs
- Cytokines and immunomodulators
- Immunosuppresive drugs
[edit] Appendices
[edit] Clinical trials
- Recent Studies Posted
- Numeric list of RTOG trials
- Search the NCI website for protocols - gives publication info for completed trials
- Other cooperative groups:
- Lists of current protocols:
- GRCOP list of active protocols - lists Fast Facts for several national protocols
- CTSU - Cancer Trials Support Unit, part of the NCI.
[edit] Cancer statistics
- 2007 Cancer Facts and Figures - from the American Cancer Society, good resource for number of cases/year
- List of most commons (e.g. What is the 3rd most common pediatric extracranial malignancy?)
- Worldwide cancer statistics
- USA cancer statistics
- Survival curve terminology definitions
[edit] Other
- AJCC/TNM staging editions
- Historical documents about radiation
- Karnofsky performance status scale
- Online tools
- Education
- Corporate
[edit] Supplementary Material
- ASTRO meeting webcasts - ASTRO Spring Refresher Course, etc.
- Other meeting presentations
- National Cancer Institute PDQ (Physician Data Query) - information about treatment, supportive care, clinical trials, etc. An invaluable resource.
- Oncolink - U.Pennsylvania, provides summaries of trials presented at scientific meetings including ASTRO, ASCO, and others. Very nice.
