Acknowledgments;.

Contributors;.

Preface;.

I. Basic Principles:.

Principles of Brachytherapy;.

History of Brachytherapy: The Years After the Discovery of Radium and Radioactivity;.

Radiobiology;.

Basic Physics of Brachytherapy;.

Instrumentation and Equipment;.

Calibration of Brachytherapy Sources;.

Quality Assurance in Brachytherapy;.

Brachytherapy Treatment Planning;.

Imaging Applications in Brachytherapy;.

Radiation Protection;.

II. Clinical Body Sites:.

Brachytherapy for Skin Cancer;.

Interstitial Radiation Therapy for Brain Tumours;.

Brachytherapy for Cancer of the Head and Neck;.

Brachytherapy for Ocular Disease;.

Esophageal Brachytherapy;.

Brachytherapy of Lung Cancer;.

Breast;.

Extrahepatic Bile Duct and Liver Cancer;.

Cancer of the Pancreas;.

Endocavitary and Brachytherapy Techniques in the Conservative Mamagement of Anorectal Cancers;.

Brahytherapy for Prostate Cancer;.

Bladder;.

Cancer of the Female Urethra;.

Brachytherapy for Cancer of the Penis;.

Low-Dose-Rate Intracavity Brachytherapy for Carcinoma of the Uterine Cerix;.

High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy for Cervical Carcinoma;.

Interstitial Implantation of Gynecologic Malignancies;.

Brachytherapy for Endometrial Carcinoma;.

Cancer of the Vagina;.

Soft Tissue Sarcomas;.

Brachytherapy for Pediatric Tumors;.

III. Special Topics:.

Nursing Management of the Brachytherapy Patient;.

Pulsed Low-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy;.

Interstitial Thermo-Brachytherapy;.

Californium-252 Neutron Brachytherapy;.

Endovascular Brachytherapy;.

Brachytherapy in the New Millennium;.

In Memoriam;.

Index