Chemotherapy for the Lungs
The addition of chemotherapy to definitive radiation for both non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small cell lung cancer (SCLC) improves survival. Although the initial data for superior survival with chemotherapy came from studies using induction chemo
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Cancer Therapy
Damian E. Dupuy • Yuman Fong William N. McMullen Editors
Image-Guided Cancer Therapy A Multidisciplinary Approach
With 394 Figures and 71 Tables
Editors Damian E. Dupuy Department of Diagnostic Imaging Rhode Island Hospital The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Providence, RI, USA
William N. McMullen McMullen Consulting, LLC Surprise, AZ, USA
Yuman Fong Department of Surgery and Radiology Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY, USA
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We all have known several people who over the years motivate and drive us to continue our work in alleviating the pain and suffering of those with cancer. One of my former co-workers and good friend, Paul R. Morrison, was one of those. Paul was a medical physicist in the Department of Radiology at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He received his M.Sc. in Physics from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1987. On graduating, he worked as a laser specialist in the Department
