good book for radonc?

What is a good book at the medical student level for rad onc? Something short but that goes into enough technical detail about radiation planning to be interesting.

Handbook of Evidence-based Radiation Oncology by Hansen & Roach.

http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Evid...4480944?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187270282&sr=8-1

eklope2000 said:

What is a good book at the medical student level for rad onc? Something short but that goes into enough technical detail about radiation planning to be interesting.

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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=TWQSW21JKJT2QQSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN
- NCCN guideline for Treatment of Cancer by Site
http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/f_guidelines.asp?button=I+Agree#site
- 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.

clint is absolutely right.

Have not had a chance to look at the Roach handbook, but I second the recommendation for cancer management: a multidisciplinary approach. It had just enough information/background on each type of cancer during my rotations as a med student, without overwhelming me with facts. A good big picture approach, after which more specific/lengthy rad onc texts could be supplemented if necessary.