Features

• Provides a systematic and comprehensive guide to understanding childhood cancers
• Gives treatment planning guidance, including treatment volume, planning techniques, and technical considerations, for each type of pediatric cancer
• Examines the risks and benefits of IMRT in children
• Discusses the late effects of radiation in treating leukemia, Hodgkin lymphoma, CNS tumors, neuroblastoma, Wilms’ tumor, soft tissue and bone sarcoma, and retinoblastoma
• Includes important historical and recent references at the end of each chapter
• Illustrates the treatments through numerous images in the text and on the book’s CRC Press web page

Review

“This is a very well-written and -organized book covering the planning and delivery aspects unique to pediatric radiotherapy. The author is a respected and well-known medical physicist with extensive pediatric radiotherapy experience. … a very useful book for any clinical physicist treating pediatric cases and seeking contextual and historical perspective. … a great reference for medical physicists who may not see many pediatric cases and can look to this text as a one-stop shop for not only a comprehensive overview, but detailed explanation for specific pediatric disease sites. Overall, it is a great addition to the reference library of any radiation therapy physicist.”
―Medical Physics, April 2014

About the Author

Arthur J. Olch is a professor of clinical pediatrics and radiation oncology in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is also chief of physics for the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Radiation Oncology Program, one of only a few radiotherapy centers in the United States that treats children exclusively. Dr. Olch earned a PhD in medical physics from the University of Los Angeles. A Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Dr. Olch has authored or coauthored more than 40 journal articles and book chapters.

Contents

Chapter 1 – Overview of Childhood Cancer: Incidence, Survival, and Late Effects
Chapter 2 – Challenges of Treating Children with Radiation Therapy
Chapter 3 – Leukemia
Chapter 4 – Tumors of the Central Nervous System
Chapter 5 – Hodgkin Lymphoma
Chapter 6 – Neuroblastoma
Chapter 7 – Wilms’ Tumor
Chapter 8 – Soft-Tissue Tumors: (Rhabdomyosarcoma and Other Soft-Tissue Sarcomas)
Chapter 9 – Bone Sarcomas (Osteosarcoma and Ewing’s Sarcoma)
Chapter 10 – Retinoblastoma