This up-to-date hands-on manual offers clear guidance on contouring and treatment planning for
both standard and advanced radiation therapy in patients with gastrointestinal cancers and
simultaneously draws together the available relevant clinical data for each type of cancer with
a view to driving treatment recommendations. The full range of malignancies is covered
including esophageal gastric pancreatic hepatic biliary colon rectal and anal cancers
and pelvic recurrences. Additional chapters are devoted to stereotactic body radiation therapy
(SBRT) to the liver for metastatic disease. The management of gastrointestinal cancers with
radiation therapy has become increasingly complex. Specifically the emergence of new
techniques such as SBRT and intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) has further increased
the need to understand how to contour targets and organs at risk how to perform safe treatment
planning and when to apply these technologies. In this context Radiation Therapy for
Gastrointestinal Cancers represents an ideal reference for both established clinical radiation
oncologists and radiation oncology residents.
