How do you prevent non-healing ulcer when treating patients with cutaneous SCC of the distal lower extremity who have peripheral vascular disease?
These patients are often not surgical candidates, but radiation complications may also be underappreciated. Do you refer to vascular surgery prior to treatment? Reflex hyperbaric O2 after treatment completion? Any other strategies?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
@Robin G. Smith points are well taken but he does not mention dose fractionation. For most skin cancers, I usually treated with a fairly short course of RT , e.g. 400×10, but not in this situation, where a longer course, e.g. 60-70 Gy in 2 Gy fxs may be desirable.
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Radiation Oncologist at Prostate Cancer Institute of America I agree. Fractionation needs to be very gentle in ...
In my experience, here is no perfect answer. Making sure all factors, as best as possible, are attended to: the patient has quit or reduced smoking during the treatment and is getting active support to do so, blood sugar (diabetes) is under control, foot care is being delivered if this is an i...
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Radiation Oncologist at Mountain Radiation Oncology Any experience with pentoxifylline/vitamin e for p...
Radiation Oncologist at Lynn Cancer Institute at Boca Raton Regional Hospital I agree with @Robin G. Smith's points. ...
I agree. Fractionation needs to be very gentle in ...