The possibility of adjusting the dosage makes the treatment suitable even for the most fragile people and allows to limit hospitalizations. It talks about it in the insert at the newsstand on Thursday
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Before or after surgery, alone or together with drugs, to permanently heal the patient or just to relieve the symptoms of the disease, especially in the presence of the very painful bone metastases. With many different purposes and machines, radiotherapy is prescribed to over half of people facing a cancer diagnosis. Many still fear it for its toxicity, but scientific research has made many steps forward in this area too and radiation today is increasingly effective and tailored to the individual patient. the equally widespread idea that it is a purely palliative strategy, which cannot completely eradicate the tumor, has also been overcome. This is demonstrated by the data of an official survey by the Italian Association of Radiotherapy and Clinical Oncology (Airo), which surveyed the work carried out in 104 Italian centers during 2020 to some cancers such as head and neck, prostate, cervix and lung: a correct dose of radiation sufficient to completely eliminate the neoplasm.
Personalized treatment
Modern radiotherapy can be defined as a “virtual surgery”, a localized treatment in which precision is decisive – he underlines Vittorio Donato, recently past president of Airo and director of the Radiotherapy Division at San Camillo-Forlanini in Rome -. Depending on the volume that is treated and the dose that is administered, different efficacy is obtained. Each patient, each type of tumor receives personalized treatment: The more the volume treated is limited, the more it is possible to increase the dose and make it more effective. Innovation today means identifying the target as precisely as possible and reducing the dose to the surrounding healthy organs.
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February 22, 2022 (change February 22, 2022 | 20:30)
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