Covers radiotherapy for malignant lymphomas, starting with the disease itself and its typical signs such as painless enlarged nodes, night sweats and itching. It then separates low-grade, high-grade and Hodgkin lymphoma and outlines which treatment combinations apply to each, plus palliative use for pain and discomfort. It closes by naming total body irradiation and total skin electron therapy as the two commonly chosen forms.
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Radiotherapy as a treatment modality of malignant lymphomas
Radiotherapy as a treatment modality of malignant lymphomas
Lymphomas are a group of blood cancers that develop from lymphocytes. Enlarged lymph nodes are present, usually painless, with night sweats and a feeling of itching and lethargy.
Lymphomas can be low grade (indolent and low growing), high-grade (fast growing) or Hodgkins lymphoma. Low grade lymphomas can be cured by radiotherapy alone if they are at an early stage, high grade lymphomas are treated with chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy while localised hodgkins is targeted solely with radiotherapy (unless it has spread, in which case chemotherapy is also used.
Radiotherapy can also be used to control pain and discomfort, in the form of palliative radiotherapy.
Total body irradiation and total skin electron therapy are the two forms of radiotherapy that are generally chosen.
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