What to read as a rotating MS4?

[G0S2]

I am interested in Rad-Onc and will be rotating at my home program in August as a MS4. Is there a particular book or other reference that is useful for the rotation?

I appreciate your replies and apologize if this has been asked many times before.

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[koolaidkid]

hansen and roach's little blue book. also uptodate. if time, leibel is good. coia (sic?) was good for intro to physics but dated otherwise. I would befriend a resident/med std at home instn and ask them also for guidance (structure of rotation, who's crazy, what the heck IMRT is vs. 3d conformal vs. igrt). and remember to eat when you can, sleep when you can, and never **** with the pancreas.

 

[clintpark]

I am interested in Rad-Onc and will be rotating at my home program in August as a MS4. Is there a particular book or other reference that is useful for the rotation?

I appreciate your replies and apologize if this has been asked many times before.

(copied from a similar thread earlier... Links are fixed.)
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=436459

The deeper into training I get, the more I'm convinced that medical students should NOT read radiation oncology specific books. Please concentrate your time reading about the disease in general so that you can do awesome H+P and exams (which impress me far more than being able to tell me whether a specific tumor gets 45 vs 54 Gy).

A few, cheap (free!), manageable suggestions: (just in case you don't have time to read the entire DeVita chapters...)
- Cancer Management, A Multidisciplinary Approach
http://cancernetwork.com/cancermanagement.jhtml;jsessionid=L2STJF2ZQIMF0QSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN
- NCCN guideline for Treatment of Cancer by Site
http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/f_guidelines.asp?button=I+Agree
- UpToDate
www.uptodate.com

If you really want to know rad onc specific clinical stuff, Hansen/Roach handbook is a nice thing to carry around. But, please, don't make it your primary reading. And, for God's sake, don't buy any real textbook; by the time you need/understand it, they will have come up with a newer edition.

 

[RadOncRudy]

I agree that Hansen & Roach's little blue book is good, it gives you staging and some disease info. I do agree with what others said though about focusing on doing good H&P's, although you will need to know about the common disease sites for which uptodate is pretty good. NCCN guidelines are great for looking up algorithms & will help you understand the sequence multi-modality treatments. Also a good overview for me at the beginning of my first rotation was this chapter on RT principles below from cancernetwork.com:
http://i.cmpnet.com/cancernetwork/handbook/pdf/02radtherapy.pdf
The article covered all the physics I was ever asked on my rotations.
Have fun

 

[yeasterbunny]

I got the smaller Perez "Management Decisions" book which is more outline-styled and thus not perfect for general reading but good for looking up your specific patients.

 

[sfbear]

(copied from a similar thread earlier... Links are fixed.)
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=436459

The deeper into training I get, the more I'm convinced that medical students should NOT read radiation oncology specific books. Please concentrate your time reading about the disease in general so that you can do awesome H+P and exams (which impress me far more than being able to tell me whether a specific tumor gets 45 vs 54 Gy).

A few, cheap (free!), manageable suggestions: (just in case you don't have time to read the entire DeVita chapters...)
- Cancer Management, A Multidisciplinary Approach
http://cancernetwork.com/cancermanagement.jhtml;jsessionid=L2STJF2ZQIMF0QSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN
- NCCN guideline for Treatment of Cancer by Site
http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/f_guidelines.asp?button=I+Agree
- UpToDate
www.uptodate.com

If you really want to know rad onc specific clinical stuff, Hansen/Roach handbook is a nice thing to carry around. But, please, don't make it your primary reading. And, for God's sake, don't buy any real textbook; by the time you need/understand it, they will have come up with a newer edition.

It seems like there's a new version of cancer management, a multidisciplinary approach but i can't find it anywhere. i tried emailing the contact on this link a few times but no luck. any ideas?
http://www.cancernetwork.com/display/article/10165/62548