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Other Applications of INTRABEAM®

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Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) permits the delivery of a high radiation dose directly to the residual tumour or tumour bed while sparing nearby normal tissues. In most cases, IORT with the INTRABEAM® system is employed as a part of multimodal treatment, with the aim of providing an additional benefit in terms of prevention of local recurrence. IORT is used to treat many tumours, the most common being:

locally advanced or recurrent colorectal cancer

soft tissue sarcomas

stomach and pancreatic cancers

primary or recurrent gynaecological cancers

head and neck tumours

New fields of application are the treatment of symptomatic vertebral metastases, for which purpose IORT is employed in combination with balloon kyphoplasty (“kypho-IORT”), and intravaginal X-ray brachytherapy. A variety of applicators have been designed for the different treatments

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, D-68167, Mannheim, Germany

    Tina Reis, Elena Sperk, Michael Ehmann & Frederik Wenz

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Centre Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, D-68167, Mannheim, Germany

    Yasser Abo-Madyan

  3. Department of Clinical Oncology and Nuclear Medicine (NEMROCK), Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

    Yasser Abo-Madyan

  4. Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, University Medical Centre Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, D-68167, Mannheim, Germany

    Frederic Bludau

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  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom

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Reis, T., Sperk, E., Abo-Madyan, Y., Ehmann, M., Bludau, F., Wenz, F. (2014). Other Applications of INTRABEAM® . In: Keshtgar, M., Pigott, K., Wenz, F. (eds) Targeted Intraoperative Radiotherapy in Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39821-6_12

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