Breast Cancer

Taghian (breast radiation oncology, Harvard Medical School) and Halyard (radiation oncology, Mayo Clinic) provide clinicians involved in the care of patients receiving radiotherapy, and students, fellows, hospital staff, medical physicists, cancer biologists, radiobiologists, and interdisciplinary colleagues with a compilation of 13 articles on the role of radiation therapy in breast cancer. Written by radiation oncologists and radiotherapists from the US, Europe, and Canada, articles cover the history of local treatment for breast cancer; the role of radiation therapy in ductal carcinoma in situ and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for operable breast cancer; advances in accelerated partial breast irradiation; proton radiation; hypofractionation; the role of postmastectomy radiotherapy and breast reconstruction; local recurrence and biological subtypes of breast cancer; intensity-modulated radiation therapy; radiation-induced heart disease; individualizing the risk of locoregional recurrence with molecular and genomic classifiers; and the current and future state of breast radiation therapy. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)