Area of Interest: Radiation Therapy
We present a case of a 55-year-old male patient who developed five basal cell carcinomas 23 years after radiation therapy of Hodgkin’s disease. In 1980 he received radiation therapy twice. Due to relapses, he was treated with aggressive polychemotherapy and underwent...
The ultimate goal of radiation therapy has always been to eradicate tumors locally while preventing damage to the surrounding tissue. New technologies aim to make treatment even more precise, while allowing clinicians to better plan treatment strategies and adapt to...
Xstrahl’s therapy systems can be used to treat painful benign skeletal disorders. The use of radiotherapy has recently been shown to be an effective method for the treatment of painful degenerative disorders of joints in elderly patients, in a recent article in...
Carcinomas of the skin are the most accessible cancers, the diagnosis is readily made and the limits of the lesion are usually easy to define. No single treatment method is best for all cancers of the skin. If the sole criterion of success is eradication of the...
In a new paper, summarized in a short talk by the University of Hull, at the Association for Radiation Research, Xstrahl’s medical systems have been used to test the effects of clinical treatments on a new PEEK device to allow ex vivo treatment regimens of samples,...
The governor of the Astrakhan region Alexander Zhilkin visited the oncology dispensary, where the newest equipment appeared, which allows treating a disease widespread in the hot Astrakhan climate - skin cancer. Skin cancer ranks first among all malignant neoplasms in...
PURPOSE: To prospectively evaluate the short-term and long-term efficacy of low-dose radiation therapy (RT) for calcaneodynia, achillodynia, painful gonarthrosis, and painful bursitis trochanterica in elderly patients aged ≥70 years. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Between...
July 3rd, 2017 – It has become a good tradition for Xstrahl Medical to sponsor the Skin Cancer Radiotherapy Study Day at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, which this year is taking place on 5 August. The one day skin cancer radiotherapy course is for clinical...
The pain relief effect of the radiation was known after the discovery of the x-ray beams at the end of the 19th century. At the beginning of the 20th century the radiation therapy was used to treat not only benign conditions but also malignant tumours. This has...
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