Main description:

While specialists often guide the care to lung cancer patients, it is often a general radiologist who is left to interpret studies that impact patient care and management. Lung Cancer Imaging provides a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis, staging and overview of the management of lung cancer relevant to practicing radiologists so that they can better understand the decision making issues and provide more directed and useful communication to the treating physicians. It Primary Care physicians will also find this book valuable to understand the relevant issues that they face when one of their patients is being treated for lung cancer.

Contents:

Epidemiology/WHO Classification

Screening for Lung Cancer

Evaluation of the Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodule

Diagnosis of Lung Cancer

Non-invasive Staging of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Novel Imaging Agents

Invasive Staging of Non-small cell lung cancer

Imaging of Smal cell lung cancer

Interdisciplinary Management of Lung Cancer

Pre-operative Evaluation for Resection

Surgical Therapy for Lung Cancer

Post-surgical Evaluation

Radiofrequency Ablation

Chemotherapy for Lung Cancer

Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer

Imaging following Radiation Therapy

Evaluation of Therapeutic Response

Imaging of Drug Toxicity