…for forehead Bowen’s disease” Gerald B Fogarty, Amy Ziebell, Stephanie Nicholls, Arthur Martin and Karen Stapleton present a case of worsening Bowen’s disease in a functionally and cosmetically sensitive area…
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Xstrahl in Action: Radiotherapy regimens in patients with non-melanoma head and neck skin cancers
…simple excision or Mohs surgery, however for patients unable to go through these treatment options, radiotherapy is the preferred treatment. Over time a series of radiotherapy treatment regimens have come…
Superficial Radiotherapy as a treatment for Dupuytren’s disease and skin cancer
…your treatment plans, contact us. References: 1 – Seegenschmiedt MH, Keilholz L, Wielputz M, et al. ‘Long-term outcome of radiotherapy for early stage Dupuytren’s disease: A phase III clinical study‘….
Radiation Therapy Rescued My Hand: Dupuytren’s Treatment
…knots and cords. If left untreated, Dupuytren’s can lead to one or more of the fingers becoming permanently bent. Initially, Alexandra was told that there was a surgical treatment option…
Xstrahl in Action: Re-excision of BCCs
Orthovoltage X-rays, as offered by the Xstrahl 300, provides an excellent alternative to re-excision for incompletely resected or recurrent BCCs Surgery is the gold standard treatment for basal cell carcinomas…
Successful imiquimod treatment of multiple basal cell carcinomas after radiation therapy for Hodgkin’s disease
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….
Xstrahl in action: Ex vivo irradiation of patient tumor provides potential for personalised medicine
…of clinical treatments on a new PEEK device to allow ex vivo treatment regimens of samples, whilst still monitoring tissue response. With head and neck cancers being predominantly treated with…
Xstrahl in Action: Xstrahl 200 Used for Research into Clinical Response Following Superficial Radiation Therapy of SCCs
…the definitive treatment of non-melanoma skin cancers. Superficial radiation therapy (SRT) uses X-rays, or photons, to stop mitosis in rapidly dividing cells. As the radiation only penetrates to just below…
Xstrahl in Action: Xstrahl 300 used in Definitive Radiotherapy
…In a recent case series, “Lesion-based radiotherapy of the ears, lips, and eyelids for skin cancer,” clinicians analyzed the treatment and outcomes for 147 patients. One of the treatment modalities…
Xstrahl in Action: Sensitizing ewing sarcoma to chemo- and radiotherapy by inhibition of DNA-repair enzymes
…agent PARP and DNA-PK inhibitors in Ewing sarcoma cell lines by performing growth inhibition and clonogenic assays in the Xstrahl CIX3. The study concluded that whilst DNA-PK and PARP inhibitors…