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This chapter on gastrointestinal cancers is aiming to summarize the evidence-based current management for esophagus, gastric, pancreas, rectum and anal cancers. We hope to ease the understanding in the appropriate delineation of tumor volumes/fields along with related case presentations covering diagnostic images, contouring, slice by slice final plan examples; accompanied by up-to-date key literature review.

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Hurmuz, P., Yazici, G., Gultekin, M., Sari, S.Y., Cengiz, M., Ozyigit, G. (2019). Gastrointestinal System Cancers. In: Ozyigit, G., Selek, U. (eds) Radiation Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97145-2_5

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