“We tried to keep Clinical Radiation Oncology friendly and approachable both for the practicing physician, who treats and manages patients, and for the trainee who needs to understand the critical issues to be ready to practice medicine independently and to do such basic things as pass the boards.” – Dr. Joel Tepper
In the third edition of Clinical Radiation Oncology we added a couple of chapters — one dealing with late effects and outcomes research, which is an area of great interest in radiation oncology. We also maintained the full-color format for the book, which is critically important in radiation oncology. So much of what we do is illustrated by computer graphics and so the color capabilities are essential.
We tried to keep Clinical Radiation Oncology friendly and approachable both for the practicing physician, who treats and manages patients, and for the trainee who needs to understand the critical issues to be ready to practice medicine independently and to do such basic things as pass the boards.
Clinical Radiation Oncology and the journal Seminars in Radiation Oncology are a perfect match. Clinical Radiation Oncology provides the global outlook and a total overview of what’s going on within diseases and treatment. Seminars in Radiation Oncology addresses a rapidly changing topical area in which there is a lot of controversy. The book and the journal present different sides of the story and keep readers updated on what’s new and exciting.
We’ve been very pleased with the structure of the first two editions of Clinical Radiation Oncology, so we tried to keep aspects of the first edition that both we and our readers liked. We kept the brief summaries of the disease sites at the beginning of each chapter, which give an overview of the disease that the chapter will discuss. We also include a variety of algorithms issues such as how to decide to treat patients. We’ve maintained those algorithms so that the reader can quickly understand management strategies. When you’re dealing with a lot of text, it’s sometimes very difficult to figure out what to do in specific clinical situations. So we hope the algorithms help.
Joel E. Tepper, MD is the Hector McLean Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research at the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill. He is a renowned investigator who has had significant impact in the field of gastrointestinal (GI) cancer research. He is an author of Clinical Radiation Oncology.
Dr. Tepper served as Chair of the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Radiation Oncology for almost 20 years. He has served as co-chair of the NCI GI Steering Committee for four years, and is active in the work of the Cancer Genome Atlas. He was an early member of the Clinical and Translational Research Advisory Committee and has served as president and then chairman of the board of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, and was a board member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Dr. Tepper is a recipient of the Gold Medal of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology.
Related Author: Leonard L. Gunderson, MD, MS, FASTRO
