Early clinical experience with a degraded 4 MeV electron beam in radiotherapy of superficial basal cell carcinoma

The most common non-melanoma skin cancer is basal cell carcinoma (BCC). Surgery is the gold standard treatment but also non-surgical alternatives are needed. The purpose of this work was to present the early clinical experiences of degraded 4 MeV electron beam as a treatment method for superficial B...

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Autores principales: Valve, Assi, Koskenmies, Sari, Tenhunen, Mikko, Nurmi, Heidi, Hernberg, Micaela, Salminen, Samuli, Anttonen, Anu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10495663/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37705728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phro.2023.100487
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Sumario:The most common non-melanoma skin cancer is basal cell carcinoma (BCC). Surgery is the gold standard treatment but also non-surgical alternatives are needed. The purpose of this work was to present the early clinical experiences of degraded 4 MeV electron beam as a treatment method for superficial BCC. Twelve patients underwent two weeks radiation therapy treatment with either 5 × 7 Gy or 2 × 12 Gy. There were no significant differences in treatment outcome with different fractionations or lesion locations. The degraded beam method is a safe and valid non-surgical solution for suitable patients with superficial lesions.

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