Radiotherapy and the Cancers of Children, Teenagers, and Young Adults

Tom Boterberg graduated as an MD in 1994 at Ghent University. After one year of residency in radiation oncology, he worked for 4 years at the Laboratory of Experimental Cancer Research on the biology of the invasive and metastatic behaviour of breast cancer cells. He obtained his PhD in 2000. Afterwards he continued his training in radiation oncology and in 2001 he obtained his Board Certificate in Radiation Oncology. Since 2001 he works as a staff member at the Department of Radiation Oncology at Ghent University Hospital. He is especially interested in paediatricradiotherapy. He is actively involved in the radiotherapy committees of SIOPEN (neuroblastoma) and EpSSG (rhabdomyosarcoma). He is boardmember of SIOPE and chairs the QUARTET project on quality assurance in paediatric radiotherapy. He is author or co-author of over 100 articlesin peer-reviewed journals. His other interests are haematology, neuro-oncology, intra-operative brachytherapy and radioprotection.Karin Dieckmann graduated from the University of Hamburg,and was trained in Radiology and Radio-oncology at the University of Goettingen and at the Charité Berlin, all in Germany. Since 1994 she has worked at the Department of Radio-oncology of the Medical University Vienna and undertakes research in stereotactic radiosurgery and paediatric radiation oncology. She is especially interested in paediatic radiotherapy and is actively involved in the European Paediatric Hodgkin studies (EuroNetPhL C1 and C2), SIOPEN neuroblastoma study, and the European Brain Tumour Group. For many years she has been a faculty member of the ESTRO teaching courses,and is now chair of the ESTRO paediatric oncology teaching course. She is chair of the German Paediatric Radio-oncology Group (APRO). She is author and co-author of radiation oncology books, and of more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals.Mark Gaze qualified from Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He trained in clinical oncology in Edinburgh and Glasgow and undertook research at the universities there. He is a consultant clinical oncologist at University College London Hospitals and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trusts and has developed a highly specialised practice in paediatric and molecular radiotherapy. He has an interest in both neuroblastoma and rhabdomyosarcoma, and is a member of SIOPEN and EpSSG, chairing their radiotherapy committees in the past, and the National Cancer Research Institute's Neuroblastoma Group. Wider interests in paediatric oncology and medicine in general led him to chair the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group, and to have been a member of council for both the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Radiologists. He is a member of the Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee for the Department of Health and Social Care.

This new volume in the Radiotherapy in Practice series provides a comprehensive and evidence-based guide to radiotherapy in the management of children and young people with cancer.

• Section 1: Generic issues in childhood and teenage and young adult cancer 1: Tom Boterberg, Karin Dieckmann, and Mark Gaze: Cancers in children, teenagers and young adults 2: Tom Boterberg, Karin Dieckmann, Helen Woodman and Mark Gaze: Cancer services for children, teenagers and young adults 3: Tom Boterberg, Edmund Cheesman, Felice D'Arco, Karin Dieckmann, Mark Gaze, Paul Humphries, Anna Kelsey, Øysten Olsen, Bruce Poppe, Derek Roebuck, Chitra Sethuraman, Frank Speleman and Gordan Vujanic: Diagnosis, risk stratification, therapeutic choices Section 2: Generic aspects of radiotherapy in this age range 4: Ronda Alexander, Tom Boterberg, Karin Dieckmann, Mark Gaze, Hannah King and Helen Woodman: Radiotherapy preparation and treatment 5: Tom Boterberg, Yen-Ch'ing Chang, Karin Dieckmann, Mark Gaze and Helen Woodman: Aftercare Section 3: Specifics of each disease type 6: Thankamma Ajithkumar, Tom Boterberg, Edmund Cheesman, Felice D'Arco, Karin Dieckmann, Mark Gaze, Gail Horan, Geert Janssens, Rolf-Dieter Kortmann, Nicky Thorp and Gillian Whitfield: Central nervous system 7: Thankamma Ajithkumar, Tom Boterberg, Victoria Castel, Karin Dieckmann, Jennifer Gains, Mark Gaze, Gail Horan, Paul Humphries, Anna Kelsey, Henry Mandeville, Øystein Olsen, Andrew D. J. Pearson, Derek Roebuck, Daniel Saunders and Chitra Sethuraman: Extracranial solid tumours 8: Tom Boterberg, Yen-Ch'ing Chang, Karin Dieckmann, Eve Gallop-Evans, Mark Gaze, Paul Humphries, Anna Kelsey, Øystein Olsen, Derek Roebuck, and Chitra Sethuraman: Lymphoid and haematological malignancy and related conditions