How to treat skin burns caused by radiation therapy

Patient: thinning of skin after radiation therapy, small areas of chronically broken skin. Anti-allergic ointment, glycerite lotion, burn ointment Are there any medicines that specialize in treating burns from radiation therapy? Xie Songtao, Burns Department, Xijing Hospital: Radiation kills cancer cells at the same time, it also has a loss of normal tissue. Therefore, wounds caused by radiation burns are very difficult to heal. Most of these patients in our outpatient clinic are treated with surgery after dressing change. Surgery is usually performed with a thoracic flap or latissimus dorsi flap. The TREM flap is also often used to repair the wound and reconstruct the breast at the same time.