Low Dose Total Skin Electron Beam Radiation in Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma: Review

A method to improve dose uniformity during total skin electron beam therapy in patients with pendulous breasts

Cutaneous lymphomas are particularly radiosensitive and amenable to palliative radiation therapy. Total skin electron beam therapy (TSEB) is effective for palliation of Sézary syndrome and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma with large body surface area involvement. Focal radiation therapy is often used for treatment of localized disease. Treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma can often pose technical ch...

Denileukin diftitox plus total skin electron beam radiation in patients with treatment-refractory cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma (mycosis fungoides): report of four cases.

Total skin electron beam therapy as palliative treatment for cutaneous manifestations of advanced, therapy-refractory cutaneous lymphoma and leukemia

BACKGROUND To retrospectively access the outcome and toxicity of a total skin electron beam therapy (TSEBT) in patients with cutaneous lymphoma (CL) or leukemia. PATIENTS AND METHODS Treatment results of 25 patients (median age 63 years; 5 female, 20 male) with cutaneous manifestations of advanced and therapy-refractory CL (n = 21; T-cell lymphomas n = 18, B-cell lymphomas n = 3) stage IIB-IV...

Clinical Implementation of 3D Printing in the Construction of Patient Specific Bolus for Photon Beam Radiotherapy for Mycosis Fungoides

Mycosis fungoides (MF), also known as Alibert-Bazin syndrome or granuloma fungoides, are a common subset of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, with peak incidence in the 55~60 years age range. Radiation therapy is the most effective treatment method of MF, these dramatic responses of low dose X-ray therapy to MF were reported by Sholtz in 1902. Radiation therapy induces cell death predominantly by apop...

Scabies associated with radiation therapy for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

Scabies, infection with Sarcoptes scabiei, is known to be predisposed to by poor body hygiene, environmental exposure, and systemic immunodeficiency. We report the case of an 83-year-old man with Sezary's syndrome who developed scabies limited to the skin of the upper chest, the same location where he had previously received electron beam radiation treatments for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Hist...