{"product_id":"the-ghost-in-the-cancer-towards-a-new-science-of-radiation-oncology-9798903629169","title":"The Ghost in the Cancer: Towards a New Science of Radiation Oncology","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): R. Vaitheeswaran\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Notion Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Notion Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Oncology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCancer treatment has become extraordinarily precise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe can image tumors in real time, sculpt radiation with millimeter accuracy, and model biology with immense computational power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd yet one question remains: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy do seemingly similar tumors behave so differently?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Ghost in the Cancer, medical physicist R. Vaitheeswaran proposes that modern oncology may be missing something fundamental: the hidden organizational state that shapes how tumors adapt, resist, and recur. The \"ghost\" is not mystical. It is the partially observable dynamics of the tumor itself - the unseen structure behind response and resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from radiobiology, systems biology, bioelectricity, imaging physics, active inference, and computational oncology, the book explores a new way of thinking about cancer: not as a static target, but as an evolving adaptive system operating under hidden internal dynamics. At the center of the book is the Active Inference Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy (AIG-ART) framework - an approach to cancer treatment that treats radiotherapy as a continuous process of sensing, inference, prediction, and adaptation, rather than fixed dose delivery alone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Notion Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891243466903,"sku":"9798903629169","price":1610.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798903629169.webp?v=1781182833","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-ghost-in-the-cancer-towards-a-new-science-of-radiation-oncology-9798903629169","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}