Treating Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma with Highly Irregular Surfaces with Photon Irradiation Using Rice as Tissue Compensator

Treating Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma with Highly Irregular Surfaces with Photon Irradiation Using Rice as Tissue Compensator

Purpose: Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) is known to have an excellent response to radiotherapy, an important treatment modality for this disease. In patients with extremity and digit involvement, the irregular surface and depth variations create difficulty in delivering a homogenous dose using ele...

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Main Authors: Lonika eMajithia, Yi eRong, Farzan eSiddiqui, Todd eHattie, Nilendu eGupta, Michael eWeldon, Arnab eChakravarti, Henry eWong, Pierluigi ePorcu, Meng eXu-Welliver
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
Subjects:
Mycosis Fungoides
Radiotherapy
Irregular surface
Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL)
Tissue compensation
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fonc.2015.00049/full

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