Radiation therapy may be used to treat lip cancer on its own or after surgery. While many providers deliver this therapy using linear accelerators, X-ray therapy using smaller treatment devices is also available. X-ray therapy devices often provide greater ease-of-use and patient comfort, and significantly fewer start-up costs, while offering similar treatment outcomes to traditional linac-based radiotherapy. In this webcast, Dr. Yevgeniy Ishkinin from the Kazakh Research Institute of Oncology and Radiology reviewed several lip cancer cases he has treated using X-ray therapy over the past three years.
Benign Radiotherapy 101
Radiation therapy is widely known for its role in treating cancer, but its benefits extend far beyond oncology. Low and intermediate doses of radiation therapy have a long and proven history in managing benign indications, particularly for hyperproliferative,...
