Intraoperative Irradiation Techniques and Results /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gunderson, Leonard L. (Editor), Willett, Christopher G. (Editor), Calvo, Felipe A. (Editor), Harrison, Louis B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2011.
• Series: Current Clinical Oncology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.

The rationale for using intraoperative irradiation (IORT) is based on the realization that tolerable doses of eternal beam radiation are often insufficient to achieve control of locally advanced malignancies. In these instances, the IORT component of treatment becomes the optimal conformal technique...