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Intraoperative Radiotherapy

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Surgical Oncology

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Today combined modality therapies comprising surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation procedures are used in the treatment of a variety of malignancies and have shown an improvement in the 5-year survival rates. New surgical techniques have been developed, and new and effective chemotherapeutics have become available. Progress is still being made in the development of new chemotherapeutic agents and less toxic drug dose schedules. Progress in radiation therapy has been achieved by the improvements in technical equipment and technical advances in methods of radiation therapy, including the use of computerized planning of radiation therapy and multiple fields. The aim has been to increase the dose to the tumor and minimize the dose to the adjacent normal tissues, thereby increasing the local control rate without increasing the complication rate. The delivery of tumoricidal doses of radiation with external beam techniques, especially the treatment of intra-abdominal, retroperitoneal, or pelvic malignancies, can be accompagnied by a short- or long-term toxicity to normal tissues.

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  1. Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Via Venezian, 1, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Umberto Veronesi (Direttore Generale) (Direttore Generale)

  2. Department of Surgery, Haukeland University Hospital, University of Bergen, 5021, Bergen, Norway

    Bo Arnesjø

  3. Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8RF, UK

    Ian Burn

  4. Department of Urology, A.Z. Middelheim, Vrue Universiteit Brussel, Lindendreef 1, 2020, Antwerpen, Belgium

    Louis Denis

  5. Cattedra di Chirurgia Generale, II facolta’, Università di Napoli, Via Pansini, 5, 80131, Napoli, Italy

    Francesco Mazzeo

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Hoekstra, H.J., Calvo, F.A. (1989). Intraoperative Radiotherapy. In: Veronesi, U., Arnesjø, B., Burn, I., Denis, L., Mazzeo, F. (eds) Surgical Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72646-0_14

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