Robotic Radiosurgery Treating Prostate Cancer and Related Genitourinary Applications

Lee E. Ponsky, Donald B. Fuller, Robert M. Meier, Charlie Ma -
Robotic Radiosurgery Treating Prostate Cancer and Related Genitourinary
Applications
Published: 2012-01-15 | ISBN: 3642114946 | PDF | 265 pages | 6.40 MB

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among North American and
European men, but its treatment continues to be problematic owing to
serious side-effects, including erectile dysfunction, urinary
incontinence, and potential lower GI complicatons. Robotic radiosurgery
offers a novel, rapid, non-invasive outpatient treatment option for
prostate cancer that combines robotics, advanced image-guided motion
detection, and automated real-time corrective spatial positioning with
submillimeter precision. This book examines all aspects of the treatment
of prostate cancer with robotic radiosurgery. After introductory
sections on radiosurgery as a multidisciplinary practice and specific
issues relating to prostate cancer, the important challenge posed by
prostate motion when administering radiation therapy is examined in
depth, with detailed discussion as to how image-guided robotic
radiosurgery overcomes this problem by continously identifying the
precise location of the prostate throughout the course of treatment. A
further major section is devoted to a discussion of techniques and
potential radiobiological and clinical advantages of hypofractionated
radiation delivery by means of robotic radiosurgery systems. The book
closes by discussing other emerging genitourinary applications of
robotic radiosurgery. All of the authors are experts in their field who
present a persuasive case for this fascinating technique.

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