Handbook of Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology

Table of Contents

Part I: Issues in Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology 1. General Approach to Palliative Care and Palliative Radiation Oncology 2. Communication 3. Prognostication in Patients Receiving Palliative Radiation Therapy 4. Palliative Care, Hospice Care, Advance Care Planning, and Advance Directives 5. Palliative Care Assessment

Part II: Symptom Management for Palliative Radiation Oncology Practitioners 6. Pain Management 7. GI Symptoms: Radiation-Induced Adverse Effects 8. Management of Dyspnea and Central Airway Obstruction in Patients With Malignancy 9. Malignant Bleeding 10. Skin Toxicity in Palliative Radiation Therapy

Part III: Disease-Specific Management for Palliative Radiation Oncology Practitioners 11. Palliative Radiotherapy for Brain Metastasis 12. Palliative Radiotherapy for Malignant Epidural Spinal Cord Compression 13. Palliative Radiotherapy for Bone Metastasis 14. Site-Specific Symptom Management: Palliative Radiotherapy for Advanced and Metastatic Lung Cancer 15. Palliative Radiation Oncology for Gastrointestinal Tract Malignancies 16. Palliative Radiotherapy for Advanced and Metastatic Gynecologic and Genitourinary Malignancies 17. Palliative Radiotherapy for Advanced and Metastatic Head and Neck Cancers and Skin Metastases

Authors

Monica S Krishnan Attening Physician, Dana Farber-Brigham and Women's Cancer Centers, Boston, MA, USA. Monica Krishnan is an attending physician at the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Centers at South Shore and Milford. She has developed a palliative radiation clinic at these community cancer centers, working in tandem with the Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology (SPRO) program at the main campus in Boston. She has a strong interest in palliative radiation and has done extensive research assessing prognostication and its role in treatment decision making. Margarita Racsa Radiation Oncologist, Fellow, Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology Service at the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA. Margarita Racsa is a radiation oncologist who recently completed a Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York. She presently is a Fellow with the Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology (SPRO) Service at the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center in Boston. She has a strong interest in Palliative Care Education including working on an initiative to develop a core curriculum in Palliative Care for radiation oncology residency programs. Hsiang-Hsuan Michael Yu Radiation Oncologist, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA. Hsiang-Hsuan Michael Yu is a radiation oncologist at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, MD. Prior to Sinai, he was the service chief of Central Nervous System Radiation Oncology with a focus in management of brain metastasis at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL. He is board certified in Radiation Oncology and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Dr. Yu has gained interest in palliative radiation oncology from clinical practice and is playing an active role to initiate a comprehensive palliative radiation oncology program.