The Role of Radiation Therapy in the treatment of Intracranial Tumours.
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Radiation therapy of Intracranial tumours, palliative and radical treatment, local and whole CNS irradiation, prophyllactic and supplementary irradiation to other modalities treatmentAbstract
The role of radiation therapy in the multimodalities treatment of intracranial tumours has been discussed. Surgery is used both for the diagnosis and the treatment of intracranial tumours. Radiation therapy has the role in both radical and palliative treatment. Local irradiation is used with the aim to reduce the size of the tumour, for alleviating pressure symptoms, to relieve obstruction of the flow of CSF to reduce hydrocephalus after the shunting operation, and to reduce the incidence or to prevent the recurrences after removal by surgery. Brain bath for palliative treatment of metastatic brain tumours and prophyllactic brain irradiation for the tumours which are notorious for brain metastases. Whole CNS irradiation is used to prevent the seedling of some tumours through the CSF. It may also be used in Leukaemias after the peripheral blood and the bone marrow pictures has been controlled by chemotherapy. The values of Radiation therapy in different kinds of intracranial tumours has been discussed.
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