What methods do you use to decrease genital skin reaction when delivering pelvic radiation to patients in the prone position?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
If you are seeing skin reactions in the genitalia in females, you are probably affecting their long term sexual function. Patients discontinue their sexual activity due to pain at the introitus when that area is treated. I don't treat patients in the prone position if genitalia sparing necessa...
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Radiation Oncologist at University of Pennsylvania Health System Thanks @Christopher H. Crane. Do you treat all sex...
Thanks @Christopher H. Crane. Do you treat all sex...