TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ben-Josef,Edgar
AU  - Koong,Albert
TI  - Lower gastrointestinal malignancies 
T2  - Radiation medicine rounds,
SN  - 9781935281467
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Demos Medical
KW  - Rectum
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Outcome assessment (Medical care)
KW  - Rectal Neoplasms
KW  - drug therapy
KW  - radiotherapy
KW  - Neoadjuvant Therapy
KW  - methods
KW  - Radiotherapy, Adjuvant
KW  - Treatment Outcome
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The evolution of modern systemic agents for colorectal cancer / Gregory Heestand, Pamela Kunz, and George A. Fisher -- Neoadjuvant treatment of rectal cancer / Christopher G. Willett and Brian G. Czito -- Patient selection for adjuvant therapy of rectal cancer / Stephen L. Harris and Joel E. Tepper -- Intensity modulated radiation therapy in the treatment of rectal cancer : current evidence and directions for the future / Michael C. Garofalo and Tracey E Schefter -- Short course versus long course preoperative radiation therapy in rectal cancer / Amanda Clarke, James D. Brierley, and John Kim -- Management of T1/T2 rectal cancers with transanal excision and radiation therapy / Niraj Mehta, Daniel T. Chang, and Percy Lee -- Management of patients with distal rectal cancer and complete clinical response to neoadjuvant chemoradiation / Angelita Habr-Gama [and others] -- Predictors of outcome in rectal cancer / Pierre Bohanes and Heinz-Josef Lenz -- Management of anal canal cancer : current chemoradiation strategies and investigations into intensity-modulated radiation therapy / Karyn A. Goodman, Tina Dasgupta, and Lisa A. Kachnic -- Predictors of outcome for anal cancer / Prajnan Das and Christopher H. Crane -- Management of anal dysplasia / Carlos Eduardo Pineda and Mark Lane Welton
N2  - Lower Gastrointestinal Malignancies. This issue of Radiation Medicine Rounds focuses on lower gastrointestinal malignancies. The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2009 there were a total of 152,000 new cases of colorectal and anal cancers diagnosed with over 50,000 deaths from these cancers. Thus it is crucial for the practitioner to be up-to-date onthe latest insights regarding their management. Included are chapters on the evolution of systemic agents,neoadjuvant treatment, radiation therapy, chemoradiation therapy, rectal cancer and anal cancer covering the vast majority of these tu
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