Radiotherapy could become more efficient in cancer treatment if it gets personalized
Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 by admin in Health
A Dutch scientist shares that cancer treatment could be lot less stressful if individuals’ sensitivity to radiotherapy is determined.
According to Dirk de Ruysscher of the Maastricht University Medical Centre, Netherlands, findings of European and Canadian research team give basis for what is called personalized radiation therapy.
If you wonder what the personalized radiation therapy entail, then here doctors will take blood sample of cancer patients and analyze it for some parameters to calculate the optimal radiation dose.
Will that mean anything better? Certainly this could make radiotherapy more efficient when used in conjunction with other treatment modalities as well as used alone.
According to Dirk de Ruysscher, radiation oncologists are otherwise restricted to give sub-optimal doses of radiation to minimize healthy tissue damage in radiosensitive patients which reduces efficiency of the radiation treatment in tumor control.
The breakthrough finding could revolutionize cancer treatment in the years to come.
