Principles of Radiation Therapy in Non-malignant Conditions
摘要
Benign disorders are being treated since decades with radiation therapy (RT) besides treating malignant ones. Few chosen inflammatory and degenerative diseases and other non-malignant conditions such as keloids, heterotopic ossification, arteriovenous malformations also display good and favorable responses to low-dose RT. The principles of RT used for benign conditions are quite different from those used for malignant diseases, especially with respect to dose, fractionation, and risk-benefit evaluation.