Book Details
Orange Code:56193
Paperback:153 pages
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1. Radiation (and Medical) Biosurveillance: Screening Survivors for Late Effects of Therapy Using the Children’s Oncology Group Long-Term Follow-Up Guidelines2. Medical Countermeasures to Radiation Injury: Science and Service in the Public Interest. A Tribute to Robert Kallman3. Ionizing Radiation and the Endothelium. A Brief Review4. Inflammation and Cell Adhesion Molecules are Involved in Radiation-Induced Lung Injury5. Volume Effects in Radiation Damage to Rat Lung6. The Role of Imaging in the Study of Radiation-Induced Normal Tissue Injury7. Screening for Cardiovascular Disease in Survivors of Thoracic Radiation8. Second Malignancies as a Consequence of Radiation Therapy9. Using Quality of Life Information to Rationally Incorporate Normal Tissue Effects into Treatment Plan Evaluation and Scoring10. Cancer-Related Fatigue as a Late Effect: Severity in Relation to Diagnosis, Therapy, and Related Symptoms11. Normal Tissue TNM Toxicity Taxonomy: Scoring the Adverse Effects of Cancer Treatment12. Radiation Biocontiniuum: Follow-Up Care For Cancer Survivors: Needs, Issues, and Strategies
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This volume is based on the LENT V NCI-sponsored meeting held in May 2004 and the CURED I Conference in 2006. Written by experts in the field, it addresses a critical topics relating to late effects, such as mechanisms of injury, the role of screening, options for interventions, second malignancies, and prevention. It is hoped that these findings will help readers to prevent and treat the long-term side-effects of irradiation.
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