Electron Beam Therapy For Skin Cancer

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Electron beam therapy for skin cancer.

But daily over 30 sessions. Doctors use electron beam therapy to treat skin cancer in people who cannot undergo surgery. During this treatment doctors deliver beams of tiny particles called electrons that do not penetrate below the skin where it could damage healthy tissue and organs. Electron beam therapy is used in the treatment of superficial tumors such as cancers of the skin e g.

Intraop is the high volume high return solution for in clinic particle therapy at an incomparable value enabling multidisciplinary care for physicians and patients. The dose of radiation to deeper tissues is minimal. Squamous cell carcinoma basal cell carcinoma melanoma mycosis fungoides nodal irradiation and it may also be used to boost the radiation dose to the surgical bed after mastectomy or lumpectomy. I was expecting.

Electrons don t go deep in your body. The superficial electron therapy is the answer for practices treating non melanoma skin cancer. The most common of all cancers basal cell carcinoma accounts for more than 90 percent of all skin. Electron beam radiation therapy is used to treat lymphoma in your skin cutaneous lymphoma.

It is also used to destroy any remaining cancer cells after surgery. Squamous cell carcinoma also rarely spreads but does so more often than basal cell. Non surgical electron beam therapy for skin cancer at water s edge basal cell carcinoma. The procedure was simple quick.

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