Consulting Editors
GEORGE P. CANELLOS, MD
William Rosenberg Professor of Medicine, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
EDWARD J. BENZ Jr, MD
Professor, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Richard and Susan Smith Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Professor, Genetics, Harvard Medical School, President and CEO Emeritus, Office of the President, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Editors
RAVI A. CHANDRA, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
LISA A. KACHNIC, MD, FASTRO
Professor and Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
CHARLES R. THOMAS Jr, MD
Department of Radiation Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
Authors
MUSTAFA ABUGIDEIRI, MD
Resident, Radiation Oncology Department, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
WILLIAM TRISTRAM ARSCOTT, MD
Physician, Compass Oncology, Portland, Oregon, USA
SUJITH BALIGA, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
JENNIFER R. BELLON, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
LIOR Z. BRAUNSTEIN, MD
Assistant Attending, Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
JEREMY M. BROWNSTEIN, MD
Radiation Oncology Fellow, Francis H. Burr Proton Beam Therapy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Radiation Oncology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
TIFFANY W. CHEN, MD
Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA
STEVEN J. CHMURA, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
ANTHONY V. D’AMICO, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
SHRADDHA MAHESH DALWADI, MD, MBA
Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
PRAJNAN DAS, MD, MS, MPH
Professor and Chief of Gastrointestinal Radiation Oncology Section, Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
JOHN DE GROOT, MD
Professor, Neuro-Oncology Department, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
ROY H. DECKER, MD, PhD
Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Smilow Cancer Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
THOMAS F. DeLANEY, MD
Radiation Oncologist, Department of Radiation Oncology, Andres Soriano Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Associate Medical Director, Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
BAHER ELGOHARI, MD, MSc
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
HESHAM ELHALAWANI, MD, MSc
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
JACLYN EMMETT, MSN, CNRP
Nurse Practitioner, Inpatient Oncology, Department of Hematology/Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
TONY Y. ENG, MD
Professor, Radiation Oncology Department, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
AHSAN FAROOQI, MD, PhD
Resident Physician, Radiation Oncology Department, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
CLIFTON DAVID FULLER, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
SARAH J. GAO, MD
Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Smilow Cancer Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
ALIREZA FOTOUHI GHIAM, MD, MSc
Physician, Department of Radiation Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA), University of British Columbia, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
STANLEY I. GUTIONTOV, MD
Resident Physician, Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
D. NEIL HAYES, MD, MS, MPH
Van Vleet Endowed Professor and Assistant Dean for Cancer Research, Division Chief, Hematology/Oncology, Departments of Medicine, Genetics/Genomics/Informatics, Preventive Medicine, and Pathology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, Adjunct Professor, Department of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
JOSEPH M. HERMAN, MD, MSc, MSHCM
Professor and Division Head, Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
EMMA B. HOLLIDAY, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
YONG JIANG, MD, PhD
Clinical Oncology Center, The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China
JOSHUA A. JONES, MD, MA, FAAHPM
Chief, Palliative Radiotherapy Service, Director of Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
SOPHIA C. KAMRAN, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
KENDALL KISER, MS
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
FENG-MING (SPRING) KONG, MD, PhD
Department of Clinical Oncology, La Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China
YOUNG KWOK, MD
Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
VICTOR HO-FUN LEE, MD
Department of Clinical Oncology, La Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China
JING LI, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology Department, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
NADIA ROXANNE LIVINGSTONE, BA
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
NICHOLAS MADDEN, MD
Resident, Radiation Oncology Department, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
BRIGID McDONALD, BS
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
MARK MISHRA, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ABDALLAH SHERIF RADWAN MOHAMED, MD, MSc
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
PRANSHU MOHINDRA, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
TIFFANY MORGAN, MD
Resident, Radiation Oncology Department, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
MANNAT NARANG
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ANDREA K. NG, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
BENJAMIN E. ONDERDONK, MD
Resident Physician, Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
WILLIAM REGINE, MD
Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
DAVID L. SCHWARTZ, MD, FACR
Professor and Chair, Departments of Radiation Oncology and Preventive Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
SONJA STIEB, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
LISA JANE SUDMEIER, MD
Resident, Radiation Oncology Department, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
GITA SUNEJA, MD, MSHP
Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology and Population Health Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
DANIEL TANENBAUM, MD
Resident, Radiation Oncology Department, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
YOLANDA D. TSENG, MPhil, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiation, Department of Radiation Oncology, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Proton Therapy Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
LISANNE VAN DIJK, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
JUAN VENTURA, BS
Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
AKILA VISWANATHAN, MD, MPH, MSc
Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Professor and Interim Director, Johns Hopkins Medicine, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
NARINE WANDREY, MD
Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA
SARAH WESTERGAARD, MD
Resident, Radiation Oncology Department, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
KAREN XU, MD
Resident, Radiation Oncology Department, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
LI YANG, MD
Clinical Oncology Center, The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China
DEBRA NANA YEBOA, MD
Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology Department and Health Services Research Department, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
TORUNN I. YOCK, MD, MCH
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA