Management of skin reactions in radiotherapy
The most common side effects in the course of radiotherapy are skin and mucous membrane reactions, which are manifested as skin redness, pigmentation, even skin breakage, peeling, and in serious…
Category: Radiotherapy
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Submaxillary gland lift–a boon for head and neck radiotherapy patients
Post-radiotherapy dry mouth is one of the serious sequelae of conventional radiotherapy in patients with head and neck malignant tumors such as nasopharyngeal cancer and oral cancer. The main mechanism…
Advantages of Chinese medicine in the efficacy of ongoing radiotherapy treatment
Chinese medicine can improve the following symptoms of radiotherapy patients: 1. Decrease in blood cell count: improve the decrease of white blood cells and platelets. 2. Skin and mucous membrane…
How do radiotherapy patients eat in their diet?
About 70% of patients with malignant tumors need radiation therapy, during radiation therapy patients will have a variety of discomforts (radiation reaction), at this time the dietary regulation is crucial.…
With radiation therapy for esophageal cancer, you need to take care of these things first
Esophageal cancer, is a malignant tumor that is very complicated to treat. Its occurrence is usually related to poor dietary and living habits, including smoking, drinking, hot and spicy food,…
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…
Radiotherapy has been instrumental in the treatment of lung cancer
Lung cancer is a common malignant tumor with the highest incidence and mortality rate among cancers. According to the histologic type of lung cancer, it can be divided into small…
What diseases can radiotherapy treat?
Radiotherapy has a very wide range of use, with the development of radiotherapy technology, its indications are more and more, about 70-80 tumors need to be treated with simple radiotherapy…
Surgical treatment of chronic radiation enteritis as a complication of radiotherapy
Radiotherapy is a commonly used treatment for many kinds of malignant tumors. In the past, due to the poor therapeutic effect of malignant tumors and the short survival period of…
What side effects can be caused by breast radiotherapy? How to deal with them
Radiotherapy can cause different degrees of side effects for every breast cancer patient, some of them are very mild, some have no obvious symptoms, while some patients have very serious…