Radiation Oncology/TOC

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

 * Introduction
 * Instructions for authors
 * Author List
 * Cancer epidemiology
 * Cancer staging

Central Nervous System Tumors
Pediatric: Benign:
 * Introduction
 * Glioma
 * Meningioma
 * Primary CNS Lymphoma
 * Pineal Gland Tumors
 * Metastatic to brain
 * CSF involvement
 * Spine
 * Miscellaneous CNS Tumors
 * Craniopharyngioma
 * Germinoma
 * Ependymoma
 * Optic Pathway Glioma
 * Brainstem Glioma
 * Pilocytic Astrocytoma
 * Medulloblastoma
 * CNS PNET
 * Pineal Gland tumors
 * Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor (AT/RT)
 * Retinoblastoma
 * Acoustic Neuroma (Vestibular Schwannoma)
 * Trigeminal neuralgia
 * Sphenopalatine Neuralgia
 * Chronic Cluster Headaches
 * Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM)
 * Cavernous Malformation
 * Glomus Jugulare (Paraganglioma)
 * Cancer pain

Skull Base Tumors

 * Chordoma
 * Chondrosarcoma

Head and Neck Tumors

 * General Head and Neck
 * Post-operative Head and Neck
 * Oral cavity
 * Pharynx:
 * Nasopharynx
 * Oropharynx
 * Hypopharynx
 * Larynx
 * Sinonasal tumors:
 * Nasal cavity
 * Maxillary sinus
 * Ethmoid sinuses
 * Salivary glands
 * Unknown primary
 * Thyroid
 * IMRT

Eye and Orbit

 * Choroidal metastasis
 * Ocular melanoma
 * Graves' Ophthalmopathy
 * Retinoblastoma

Thoracic Tumors

 * Lung Cancer
 * NSCLC
 * SCLC
 * Carcinoid of the lung
 * Mesothelioma
 * Thymoma
 * Superior Vena Cava Syndrome

Gastrointestinal Tumors

 * Esophagus
 * Stomach
 * Gastrointestinal stromal tumors
 * Pancreas
 * Bile duct (Cholangiocarcinoma)
 * Gall bladder
 * Liver
 * Small intestine
 * Colon
 * Rectum
 * Anal canal

Genitourinary Tumors
Benign
 * Prostate
 * Bladder
 * Kidney
 * Testis
 * Penis
 * Urethra
 * Renal pelvis and ureter
 * Peyronie's Disease

Gynecologic Tumors

 * Vulva
 * Vagina
 * Cervix
 * Cervical brachytherapy
 * Uterus
 * Endometrial carcinoma
 * Leiomyosarcoma
 * Fallopian tube
 * Ovary

Breast Cancer

 * Breast

Hematologic Malignancies

 * Hodgkin lymphoma
 * Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
 * Primary CNS lymphoma
 * Leukemia
 * Multiple myeloma and plasmacytoma
 * Waldenstroms macroglobulinemia
 * Mycosis fungoides
 * Cutaneous B-cell lymphoma
 * Spleen Irradiation
 * Total Body Irradiation
 * Miscellaneous

Sarcoma
Soft tissue tumors: Bone tumors: Benign:
 * Soft tissue sarcomas
 * Retroperitoneal sarcomas
 * Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
 * Synovial sarcoma
 * Angiosarcoma
 * Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor and Malignant Intracerebral Nerve Sheath Tumor
 * Hemangiopericytoma
 * EBV-associated Smooth Muscle Tumor (EBV-SMT)
 * Osteosarcoma
 * Chondrosarcoma
 * Ewing's sarcoma
 * Fibrosarcoma
 * Chordoma
 * Bone PNET
 * Angiomyxoma

Skin

 * Melanoma
 * Non-melanoma skin cancer
 * Merkel cell carcinoma
 * Kaposi's sarcoma
 * Eccrine Porocarcinoma
 * Extramammary Paget's disease

Neuroendocrine Tumors

 * Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid
 * Small cell lung cancer
 * Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the lung
 * Paraganglioma
 * Adrenocortical Carcinoma
 * Merkel cell
 * Neuroblastoma

Germ cell tumors

 * Testicular GCTs
 * CNS GCTs

Pediatric Tumors

 * Brain Tumors
 * Craniopharyngioma
 * Germ cell tumors
 * Ependymoma
 * Medulloblastoma
 * Optic Pathway Glioma
 * Pilocytic Astrocytoma
 * CNS PNET
 * Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor
 * Nephroblastoma (Wilms')
 * Neuroblastoma
 * Rhabdomyosarcoma
 * Retinoblastoma
 * Ewing's sarcoma
 * Bone PNET
 * Pediatric Hodgkin's
 * Burkitt's Lymphoma

Miscellaneous Tumors

 * Miscellaneous

Benign Non-Neoplastic Diseases

 * Trigeminal Neuralgia
 * Sphenopalatine Neuralgia
 * Chronic Cluster Headaches
 * Acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma)
 * Graves' Disease
 * Heterotopic ossification
 * Ankylosing spondylitis
 * Heel Spurs
 * Keloid
 * Angiomyxoma
 * Peyronie's Disease
 * Vascular Brachytherapy
 * Arteriovenous malformation
 * Cavernous malformation

Palliation

 * Overview of palliation
 * Superior vena cava syndrome
 * Spinal cord compression
 * Bone mets
 * Brain mets
 * NSCLC palliation
 * Pelvic palliation

Treatment toxicity

 * Grading of toxicity
 * NTCP (Normal tissue complication probability)
 * Normal tissue tolerance (Emami estimates)
 * Brain
 * Vision
 * Head & Neck
 * Heart
 * Lung
 * Esophagus
 * Small bowel
 * Genitourinary
 * Bone marrow
 * Second malignancies
 * Skin

Supportive Care

 * Supportive care (general)
 * Anemia
 * Cachexia
 * Dyspnea
 * Fatigue
 * Gastrointestinal symptoms
 * Skin care
 * Head and neck
 * Hot flashes
 * Neurologic symptoms
 * Pain
 * Thromboembolism

Radiation Techniques

 * External Beam
 * Cranial stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)
 * Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT)
 * Whole brain RT (WBRT)
 * Cranio-Spinal Irradiation (CSI)
 * Total Body Irradiation (TBI)
 * Total Scalp Irradiation (TSI)
 * Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)


 * Image-guided radiotherapy
 * Adaptive radiotherapy
 * Brachytherapy
 * Intraoperative RT (IORT)
 * Unsealed sources
 * Particle Therapy
 * Neutrons
 * Protons
 * Charged Particles
 * Hyperthermia

Treatment Planning

 * Contraindications to radiotherapy
 * Anatomy
 * Bone marrow distribution
 * Examples of treatment fields
 * Tumor motion
 * IMRT
 * Devices used in simulation
 * Treatment of patients with pacemakers

Radiobiology

 * Classic radiobiology
 * Effect of time to treatment and overall treatment time
 * Cancer biology
 * Antibodies
 * Small molecules
 * Radiation modulators
 * Radiation Sensitizers
 * Radiation Protectors
 * List of Chromosomes and their related cancer genes
 * Tumor markers

Health Technology Assessment

 * Radiation Oncology/Cost-Effectiveness
 * Radiation Oncology/Protons/Economics

Drugs

 * Chemotherapy drugs
 * Chemotherapy combinations
 * Endocrine drugs
 * Cytokines and immunomodulators
 * Immunosuppresive drugs

Clinical trials

 * Recent Studies Posted
 * Numeric list of RTOG trials
 * Search the NCI website for protocols - gives publication info for completed trials
 * Other cooperative groups:
 * ACOSOG
 * CALGB
 * COG
 * ECOG
 * EORTC
 * GOG
 * NCI-Canada
 * NSABP
 * SIOP trials
 * Lists of current protocols:
 * GRCOP list of active protocols - lists Fast Facts for several national protocols
 * CTSU - Cancer Trials Support Unit, part of the NCI.

Cancer statistics

 * 2007 Cancer Facts and Figures - from the American Cancer Society, good resource for number of cases/year
 * List of most commons (e.g. What is the 3rd most common pediatric extracranial malignancy?)
 * Worldwide cancer statistics
 * USA cancer statistics
 * Survival curve terminology definitions

Other

 * AJCC/TNM staging editions
 * Historical documents about radiation
 * Karnofsky performance status scale
 * Online tools
 * Education
 * Corporate

Supplementary Material

 * ASTRO meeting webcasts - ASTRO Spring Refresher Course, etc.
 * Other meeting presentations
 * National Cancer Institute PDQ (Physician Data Query) - information about treatment, supportive care, clinical trials, etc. An invaluable resource.
 * Oncolink - U.Pennsylvania, provides summaries of trials presented at scientific meetings including ASTRO, ASCO, and others. Very nice.