Target Volume Delineation for Pediatric Cancers

Description

This handbook is designed to provide the radiation oncologist with clear practical guidance in the delineation of tumor volumes and/or radiation fields for a wide variety of pediatric cancers, including the most frequently encountered malignancies of childhood. This is a guide to designing treatment fields and volumes that may be utilized in the delivery of conformal therapies such as intensity-modulated radiation therapy and proton therapy, the latter being particularly relevant in children. Each chapter focuses on a specific tumor type, providing general guidelines that will assist the reader in delineating the clinical target volume for particular presentations, including patterns of spread. As the target volumes can be complex, detailed illustrations are presented of the volumes in representative cases, contoured slice by slice on the planning CT images. In addition to target volume delineation for conformal treatment, field design setup for conventional approaches is also discussed. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Central Nervous System Normal Structures (Barbara Fullerton, Shannon M. MacDonald)....Pages 1-11 Noncentral Nervous System Normal Structures (Natia Esiashvili)....Pages 13-25 Medulloblastoma (Ralph Ermoian, Steve Braunstein)....Pages 27-38 Ependymoma (Christine Hill-Kayser)....Pages 39-54 Pediatric Intracranial Germinomas (Jonathan W. Lischalk, Shannon M. MacDonald)....Pages 55-70 Craniopharyngioma (Anita Mahajan)....Pages 71-98 Gliomas in Children (Teresa Meier, Carolyn Freeman, John Breneman)....Pages 99-124 Rhabdomyosarcoma (Matthew Ladra, Karen J. Marcus, Torunn Yock)....Pages 125-144 Ewing Sarcoma and Osteosarcoma (Matthew D. Hall, Nadia Laack, Daniel J. Indelicato)....Pages 145-160 Non-rhabdomyosarcoma Soft Tissue Sarcomas (Lynn Million)....Pages 161-191 Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma (Zachary D. Guss, Qinyu Chen, Bradford Hoppe, Stephanie A. Terezakis)....Pages 193-204 Wilms and Other Pediatric Renal Tumors (Arnold C. Paulino, John Kalapurakal)....Pages 205-219 Neuroblastoma (Bret Adams, Daphne Haas-Kogan, Joseph Panoff)....Pages 221-239 Ocular and Orbital Malignancies (John T. Lucas Jr., Jeffrey C. Buchsbaum)....Pages 241-250 Pediatric Head and Neck Malignancies (Michelle Gentile, Bree Eaton)....Pages 251-282