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This book is a comprehensive review of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT): its physics, clinical evidence, indications, and future directions. The utilization of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is increasing internationally because of several factors. First, it offers patients a local treatment option that has demonstrated effectiveness similar to traditional surgery without the morbidity of general anesthesia and open surgical resection. Second, recent advancements in the quality of scientific evidence supporting a SRS or SBRT-containing approach in patients continues to evolve and demonstrate favorable disease-specific outcomes with little, if any, toxicity in various anatomic disease sites and for various conditions including cancer, benign tumors, and other psychiatric and neurologic conditions. Third, and most provocatively, is the notion that definitive local therapy (i.e. SRS or SBRT) in patients with cancer can boost the immune system to fight cancer in other sites throughout the body. While traditional medical knowledge would suggest that all patients with metastatic cancer are incur

Who reads Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy : a Comprehensive Guide?

Author

Samuel T. Chao; Arjun Sahgal; Daniel M. Trifiletti; Jason P. Sheehan

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030169244

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Technology, Medical, Medicine