Radiotherapy Planning

Thankamma Ajithkumar is a Consultant Clinical Oncologist at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK. He undertook a research fellowship in the Royal Marsden Hospital, London followed by speciality training in Clinical Oncology in the Eastern Deanery. His research interest is to optimize the combination of radiotherapy with novel agents in paediatric brain tumours and hepato-pancreatico-biliary tumours to improve clinical outcomes. He is Chair of the European Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOPE) Brain Tumour Radiotherapy and Germ Cell tumour groups. He is also the Editor in Chief of Clinical Oncology, the official Journal of Royal College of Radiologists.

• 1: Principles of radiotherapy 2: Practical radiotherapy 3: Radiotherapy side-effects and their management 4: Skin cancers 5: Central nervous system tumours 6: Head and neck cancer 7: Breast cancer 8: Thoracic cancer 9: Gastrointestinal cancer 10: Urological cancer 11: Gynaecological cancer 12: Sarcomas 13: Haematological malignancies 14: Paediatric tumours 15: Emergency and palliative care 16: Oligometastatic and oligo-progressive disease

[...] the inclusion of technical facets of clinical care including treatment planning give this book a certain appeal. This is particularly true for a trainee or sub-specialized practitioner seeking to gain a quick appreciation for basic tenets behind clinical care in areas with which one might be less familiar. From this perspective, I expect this book to be a useful resource in my own library.