What Can Your Radiation Oncologist Do Today: Technology at Your Service to Maximize the Therapeutic Ratio

Treatment of Hodgkin ’s lymphoma has seen an impressive improvement in the survival over the past five decades. Major part of that improvement is credited to avoiding treatment toxicity, which is considered an equal leading cause in long-term mortality. Combined modality with chemotherapy and radiation remains the acc epted standard of care especially for early stage presentation. The use of radiation has been critically looked at, in view of the previously reported side effects, cardiac and second malignancies, therefore prompted a radical change in radiation therapy techniques.
Source: Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia - Category: Hematology Authors: Source Type: research