Is it appropriate to offer low dose radiation for Hidradenitis Suppurativa that have failed conservative interventions?

What dose and field margins would you add? Is a 50% response rate realistic to counsel a patient? What would you quote as a realistic rate for secondary cancers when treating an older patient to 7.5 Gy just to the skin?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

We are currently writing about our experience with high dose electron therapy for HS. Low dose therapy was not giving us the results we wanted. The dose needs to be high enough to destroy the sebaceous glands where the chronic infection resides. Our initial treatment is 3 Gy fractions 3 times per we...

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Radiation Oncologist at Kaiser Permanente
Have these results been published?

Radiation Oncologist at Radiation Oncology Associates of New England
Would also like to know if published.

Radiation Oncologist at Rush University Medical Center
Sadly, I don't think these data will be published:...

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Is it appropriate to offer low dose radiation for Hidradenitis Suppurativa that have failed conservative interventions?

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