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Side Effects and Long-Term Risks from Radiotherapy of Non-malignant Diseases

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Radiotherapy for Non-Malignant Disorders

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Abstract

The unfavourable standing of radiotherapy for nonmalignant diseases among many members of the medical community rests on a few reports of severe radiation necrosis in patients treated in the 1920s and 1930s for various trivial conditions as exemplified by Cannon [3], who gave his paper the telling title “malignant irradiation for benign disease”.

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  1. Department of Radiation Biology, St. Bartolomew’s Medical College, Chartenhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK

    Klaus-Rüdiger Trott MD (Professor)

  2. Hegelstrasse 5, 04157, Leipzig, Germany

    Friedrich-Hugo Kamprad MD (Professor em.)

  3. Dept. of Radiation Therapy and Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Leipzig, Stephanstrasse 9a, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    Friedrich-Hugo Kamprad MD (Professor em.)

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology and Therapeutic Radiology, Alfried-Krupp-Hospital, Alfried-Krupp-Strasse 21, Postfach 10 22 43, 45117, Essen, Germany

    Michael Heinrich Seegenschmiedt MD (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Strahlenklinik Klinikum Duisburg, Zu den Rehwiesen 9, 47055, Duisburg, Germany

    Hans-Bruno Makoski MD (Professor) (Professor)

  3. Department of Radiation Biology, St. Bartolomew’s Medical College, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK

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Trott, KR., Kamprad, FH. (2008). Side Effects and Long-Term Risks from Radiotherapy of Non-malignant Diseases. In: Seegenschmiedt, M.H., Makoski, HB., Trott, KR., Brady, L.W. (eds) Radiotherapy for Non-Malignant Disorders. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68943-0_2

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