External beam therapy is used to aim highly focused beams of radiation at the edge of the site where cancer is found. This book provides practical guidance, taking the reader through the fundamentals of clinical radiotherapy followed by detailed chapters on each tumour site, covering indications, treatment, and planning.

• 1: Peter Hoskin: Introduction


• 2: Karen Venables: Basic Physics


• 3: Yat Man Tsang: Treatment, delivery, intensity-modulated radiotherapy, and image-guided radiotherapy


• 4: Ranald MacKay and Alex Aitkenhead: Proton Therapy


• 5: Charlotte Coles, Murray Brunt, Anna Kirby, Sara Lightowlers, and Nicola Twyman: Breast Radiotherapy


• 6: Kevin Franks, Fiona McDonald, and Gerard G. Hanna: Radiotherapy for thoracic tumours


• 7: Stephen Falk: Upper GI.


• 8: Rob Glynne-Jones and Mark Harrison: Rectal cancer


• 9: Rob Glynne-Jones and Mark Harrison: Squamous cell carcinoma of the anus


• 10: Alison Tree, Linus Benjamin, and David Dearnaley: Prostate cancer


• 11: Nicholas James, David Fackrell, and Anjali Zarkar: Bladder cancer


• 12: Peter Hoskin: Testis


• 13: Peter Hoskin: Penis


• 14: Melanie Powell and Alexandra Taylor: Uterus Endometrium and Cervix


• 15: Peter Hoskin: Vulva and vagina


• 16: Richard W. Tsang, Mary K. Gospodarowicz, and Peter Hoskin: Lymphomas


• 17: Neil G Burnet, Fiona Harris, Mark B Pinkham, Kate E Burton, and Gillian A Whitfield: Central nervous system tumours


• 18: Christopher Nutting and Dorothy Gujral: Head and neck cancer


• 19: Carie Corner, Hannah Tharmalingham, and Peter Hoskin: Skin cancer


• 20: James Wylie: Sarcomas of soft tissue and bone


• 21: Henry C Mandeville: Principles of paediatric radiation oncology


• 22: Peter Hoskin: Radiotherapy planning for metastatic disease


• 23: Patricia Díez and Edwin GA Aird: Quality assurance in radiotherapy

Peter Hoskin has extensive clinical experience in the use of modern techniques for radiotherapy delivery. He undertakes both national and international teaching courses in the subject and is a clinical lead for the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) radiotherapy quality assurance programme. An experienced teacher and examiner in clinical oncology, he currently chairs the fellowship Examination Board for the Royal College of Radiologists.
Peter Hoskin is the series editor for the Radiotherapy in Practice series.