This issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, guest edited by Dr. Adam Raben, is devoted to Radiation Oncology. Dr. Raben has assembled expert authors to review the following topics: Radiation Oncology Management of Stage I-III Cervix Cancer; Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery Updates for Tumors of the Central Nervous System; Advances in Treatment of Anal Cancer with Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy; Management of Stage 1 Lung Cancer with SRS; Postoperative Radiation Management...

In the United States in 1993 the American Cancer Society estimated that there were about 1,300,000 new cases of invasive cancer diagnosed. At the time of presentation about 70% of those patients represented limited local regional disease without evidences of distant dissemination. About 30% of the patients had demonstrated metastatic disease at the time of initial diagnosis or about 390,000 patients. Of those patients with local regional disease about 56% would be cured by the best treatme...

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