Low dose radiation therapy is the typical treatment for elderly patients aged ≥70 years, for painful benign skeletal disorders such as calcaneodynia, achillodynia, painful gonarthrosis, and painful bursitis trochanterica. However the short- and long-term efficacy has...
Knee bone marrow edema is often diagnosed with the help of MRI as a consequence of trauma, overload, surgery, arthrosis or osteonecrosis. One of its most common reasons is cruciate ligament rupture surgery. The edema pathogenesis is not known for sure. The bone marrow...
February 28th, 2019 – Xstrahl Medical, global leader in superficial radiotherapy devices to treat non-melanoma skin cancer and dermatological conditions, is spotlighting its RADiant treatment system at the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) annual meeting in...
February 6th, 2019 – A leading dermatology center in Tennessee has commenced advanced skin radiotherapy treatments using the new RADiant treatment system from Xstrahl Medical, global leader in superficial radiotherapy devices to treat non-melanoma skin cancer and...
Painful shoulder syndrome currently has a limited volume of treatments, however recent studies have suggested long term pain reduction could be a possible treatment. In their paper “The Erlangen Dose Optimization Trial for radiotherapy of benign painful shoulder...
Radiotherapy has long been advocated as an alternative treatment in early Dupuytren's disease, however independent analysis of its use has not been carried out before. In their paper “Radiotherapy in Dupuytren's disease: a systematic review of the evidence” Kadhum M,...
Low dose radiotherapy is being increasingly used to treat benign syndromes, however long term impact studies on these low dose radiotherapy treatments has long been neglected. In their paper “The Erlangen Dose Optimization trial for low-dose radiotherapy of benign...
According to the American Academy of Dermatology, it is estimated that non-melanoma skin cancer, including basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, affects more than 3 million Americans a year and 178,560 new cases of melanoma, including 91,270 invasive, will...
In many European countries, patients with a variety of chronical inflammatory diseases are treated with low-dose radiotherapy (LD-RT). In contrast to high-dose irradiation given to tumor patients, little is known about radiobiological mechanisms underlying this...
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