Principles and Practice of Radiation Therapy

By Dennis T. Leaver and Charles M. Washington

Book Overview

The only radiation therapy text written by radiation therapists, Principles and Practice of Radiation Therapy, 4th Edition helps you understand cancer management and improve clinical techniques for delivering doses of radiation. A problem-based approach makes it easy to apply principles to treatment planning and delivery. New to this edition are updates on current equipment, procedures, and treatment planning. Written by radiation therapy experts Charles Washington and Dennis Leaver, this comprehensive text will be useful throughout your radiation therapy courses and beyond.

Comprehensive coverage of radiation therapy includes a clear introduction and overview plus complete information on physics, simulation, and treatment planning. Spotlights and shaded boxes identify the most important concepts. End-of-chapter questions provide a useful review. Chapter objectives, key terms, outlines, and summaries make it easier to prioritize, understand, and retain key information. Key terms are bolded and defined at first mention in the text, and included in the glossary for easy reference. UPDATED chemotherapy section, expansion of What Causes Cancer, and inclusions of additional cancer biology terms and principles provide the essential information needed for clinical success. UPDATED coverage of post-image manipulation techniques includes new material on Cone beam utilization, MR imaging, image guided therapy, and kV imaging. NEW section on radiation safety and misadministration of treatment beams addresses the most up-to-date practice requirements. Content updates also include new ASRT Practice Standards and AHA Patient Care Partnership Standards, keeping you current with practice requirements. UPDATED full-color insert is expanded to 32 pages, and displays images from newer modalities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323287522
• ISBN13: 9780323287524
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 928 Pages
• Weight: 6.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.8" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Great

This book is the bible as far as radiation therapy is concerned. Will use this the whole time I'm in school and probably even after. Great book, this new edition is much improved.

Comprehensive but incohesive

This is supposed to be an overview of rad therapy, and it definitely does the job. As it should, it doesn't go into great depth on any one topic. It's broken down into an intro, physics and practical applications. But I did wish the authors spend more time on treatment planning, and perhaps less so on the basics like mathematics, which I would hope most students are proficient in. Because this book is a collection of chapters written by diff authors, the text can get incohesive or repetitive at times. And there are chapters that are written in a convoluted style like pathology. Likewise, I didn't find the physics section particularly cohesive. However, the book does make its money on the practical applications section.

great transaction

I am happy with my rad ther purchase. it got to me in a timely manner and the book was flawless until about 2 wks in2 class when i began to use the hilitr.

To outdo oneself

Mr. Washington,whom I know personally as Charles, did any staff member who works in a radiation oncology department, or any student who wants to work in radiation oncology, a great service by revising and updating his three books and combining them into one. As a therapist learning dosimetry this has been an awfully good reference book. I gave my brand new copy as a graduation present to a recently graduated radiologic technologist student who wants to become a radiation therapist. I can't tell you how much he appreciated it.