Damian E. Dupuy – Image-Guided Cancer Therapy

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Foreword
This book which has the “who’s who” in interventional oncology as its
editors, and, importantly, as its authors, incorporate a unique style and
a completely integrated approach to this relatively new and fascinating
field. Interventional oncology has literally rocketed to the forefront of interventional
radiology, surgical oncology, radiation therapy, and oncology.
There is not one meeting, nationally or internationally, in any of these
specialties that does not address this subject.
What makes a book like this good? It’s a combination of the editors and the
authors. This is not just a book put together without thought with authors who
are only slightly familiar with a topic. Indeed, the editors represent leaders in
the field of interventional oncology and individuals who put this subspecialty
on the map. They have carefully chosen outstanding leaders in the field to
thoroughly address this new specialty. The reader will be exposed to all
aspects of the specialty from interventional radiology to radiation therapy.
Led by Damian E. Dupuy, this group of editors have corralled this sometimes
difficult and complicated subject into digestible bits that will allow
interested physicians to understand and use them when needed. The book is
organized topically, allowing the reader to become educated in all aspects of
interventional oncology. Current areas of interest such as liver tumors, bone
tumors, metastatic tumors, etc. allows the reader to easily access commonly
seen disease processes that are nicely updated and categorized in this opus.
However, this is not a standard textbook with standard coverage. It goes
much beyond that. The first section describes the theories and science behind
several techniques including the newest, “electroporation,” which is so new
that few monographs have described it. The second part of the book explores
an area which is extremely important, but is not discussed in enough detail in
most books. These include the development of clinical practice, the interaction
with anesthesia, and patient management issues in cancer patients who
are undergoing these techniques. This is one of the more neglected areas of
discussion in most books and one of the most difficult parts of any interventional
oncology procedure. The total management of the patient is not an area
which is well discussed or taught in the review courses set up in most societal
meetings.
The format is both readable and practical in that the book is divided into
both organ-based topics such as liver, kidney, and lung and specific topics that
the reader can turn to such as treatment of metastasis; the chapter on “alternatives
and novel therapies of the liver” is a great example of the total scope of the book; where else can you get a review of cryotherapy of liver or the use
of laser therapy? The senior authors are all world-renowned experts in
interventional oncology which is another example of the high-quality authorship
and experience that is brought to this book.
The later chapters discuss therapies that are simply not covered in any
other source: Everyone who is doing or wants to do ablation therapies and
interventional oncology will face a time when they will be asked to use their
expertise in less used and less investigated areas. There is nowhere else where
the reader can get information on the prostate, breast, gynecologic areas, and
especially pediatrics. These chapters offer an outstanding compliment to the
basic material described earlier in the book.
This book is an outstanding contribution to the literature and will become
a “must read” for all physicians who are interested in interventional oncology

Preface
Multidisciplinary care for cancer is no longer just surgery, chemotherapy, and
radiotherapy. Interventional oncology is a rapidly growing field that is
already indispensible in the care of the patient with a malignancy. Needleand
catheter-based therapies provide palliation of symptoms, cyto-reduction
in cases of incurable cancers, and potential cure in cancers discovered at an
early enough stage. This book is an attempt at summarizing the state of the art
in terms of physical and biologic basis of practice and current clinical
delivery. This book does not only present the data for use of interventional
procedure, but also tries to placed these procedures within the context of other
modalities for treatment of cancer.
The authorship of this book includes surgeons, oncologists, radiation
therapists, in addition to the leaders in interventional radiology. It is an
authorship that reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the book and of the
field of cancer care. We, the editors, thank the contributors for writing their
thorough chapters in a timely fashion while juggling their day-to-day activities
of being busy clinicians and scientists. We understand how busy professionals
have ever-changing lives and ever-increasing tasks related to their
jobs and personal life may make it hard to “write another chapter.” Our book,
Image-Guided Cancer Therapy: A Multidisciplinary Approach, is a testament
to the patience, understanding, and hard work of the editors, associate editors,
section editors, and authors, for without whom this book would never have
come to completion. We all share a vision that having the current practice of
interventional oncology summarized in a comprehensive textbook is timely
and important.
We would be remiss not to thank our families, loved ones, coworkers and
support staff whose love and support allowed us to take the extra time needed
to bring together this important body of work which we feel is a very
comprehensive source of information for cancer practitioners today. Thus,
to our wives Cathy, Nicole, and Kris, we particularly say thanks. We would
also be negligent if we didn’t thank the thousands of courageous cancer
patients who have undergone some of these advanced therapies as part of
clinical trials or as part of their cancer care. As with many fields that rely on
state-of-the-art technology, this field is rapidly growing and changing. Hopefully, this book is the first of many future editions that addresses this
ever-changing , evolving, and exciting field of medicine.