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- Title
What is new when it comes to acute and chronic radiation-induced dermatitis in head and neck cancer patients?
- Authors
Dudek, Aleksandra; Rutkowski, Tomasz; Kamińska-Winciorek, Grażyna; Składowski, Krzysztof
- Abstract
Head and neck cancer is a serious clinical and social problem. Surgery and radiotherapy play the most important role in treatment and give the chance of cure. Optimal treatment of patients with head and neck cancer should provide for the maximum destruction of cancerous tissue, saving as much healthy tissue as possible. Despite this, due to radiotherapy still almost 90% of patients develop skin symptoms. It seems that the mechanism of radiodermatitis is quite clear, but studies assume that its pathogenesis is not fully understood and there is much to be clarified. Acute and chronic dermatitis caused by radiotherapy is usually diagnosed according to clinical criteria. It seems that it would be useful to have a photographic classification that would facilitate and unify the clinical evaluation. In this article we shall summarize the current knowledge about the mechanisms of formation, risk factors, clinical classifications and methods for the prevention and treatment of acute and chronic radiation dermatitis. We have included clinical photos that depict individual stages according to the clinical classification of RTOG.
- Subjects
DELAYED radiation effects; SKIN inflammation; HEAD &; neck cancer; CANCER patients; RADIOTHERAPY
- Publication
Nowotwory, 2020, Vol 70, Issue 1, p9
- ISSN
0029-540X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5603/NJO.2020.0002