1st Edition

Advances in Nuclear Oncology: Diagnosis and Therapy

544 Pages 321 Color & 579 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

544 Pages
by CRC Press

The diagnostic and therapeutic achievements in radiopharmaceuticals and nuclear medicine instrumentation – PET, SPECT, MR, CT and their hypbrids PET-CT and SPECT-CT – are the result of the interdisciplinary research efforts of cell-biologists, chemists, pharmacologists, physicists, computer-scientists, engineers, nuclear medicine physicians, and oncologists. The clinical implications of these... Read more

Section I: Biology of Cancer  1. What is Cancer?  2. Targets 

Section II: Diagnostic Applications  3. Primary Brain Tumours  4. Head and Neck Cancer  5. Lung Cancer  6. Esophageal Cancer  7. Colorectal Cancer  8. Prostate Cancer  9. Ovarian Cancer  10. Breast Cancer  11. Thyroid Cancer  12. Adrenal Cancer  13. Neuroendocrine Gastroenteropancreatic Tumors  14. Lymphoma  15. Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors  16. Malignant Melanoma17. Cancer of Unknown Primary 

Section III: Therapeutic Applications  18. Differentiated Thyroid Cancer  19. Medullary Thyroid Cancer  20. Lymphoma  21. Neuroendocrine Tumors  22. Bone Metastases  23. Liver Tumors  24. Colorectal Cancer  25. Brain Tumors  26. Ovarian Cancer 

Section IV: Methods and Technology  27. New Instrumentation  28. New Radiopharmaceuticals  29. Radiopharmaceuticals for Therapy  30. New Concepts in Dosimetry and Protection  31. Advances in Nuclear Medicine Imaging in Oncology  32. Nuclear Medicine-Guided Radiotherapy

Biography

Bombardieri, Emilio; Buscombe, John; Lucignani, Giovanni; Schober, Otmar