Radiation Therapy in Hematologic Malignancies An Illustrated Practical Guide /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dabaja, Bouthaina Shbib (Editor), Ng, Andrea K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiotherapy.; Hematology.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.

This book is designed to assist practitioners in managing patients who present with difficult cases of the most common hematological malignancies. The scenarios covered are those that are likely to be encountered in patients with the various forms of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and l...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: early stage favourable and unfavourable
• Advanced stage
• Primary refractory
• Relapsed Hodgkin’s in the setting of transplant
• Part II: Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma
• Early stage
• Advanced stage
• Refractory/palliative
• Follicular lymphoma: Early stage, grade 1,2
• Advanced stage/palliative
• Extranodal marginal zone: Gastrointestinal origin
• Non-gastrointestinal origin
• Primary mediastinal lymphoma
• Plasmacytoma/multiple myeloma
• Lymphoblastic lymphoma
• Primary CNS lymphoma
• Primary testicular lymphoma
• Mantle cell lymphoma
• Primary skin lymphoma including anaplastic large cell and mycosis fungoides
• Part III: Leukemia: craniospinal irradiation
• treatment of chloromas.