<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The aim of our study was to investigate acute post-radiation changes after therapy with ionizing radiation
manifested by erythema or dry, squamous and scurfy skin on a breast. We observed 100 female patients suffering
from an early stage of breast carcinoma. The entering criteria were: age below 70 years, 100% of the
Karnofsky s Score, no tumor bilaterality, tumor in the stage of T1 or T2. The female patients had finished nonradical
surgery consisting from quadrantectomy and deviation of the axilla. Our results showed relationships
between the localization and the level of breast skin change as well as between adjuvant chemotherapy and the
level of breast skin change and, finally, between the size of the average dose of high energy radiation and the
level of breast skin change.</p></abstract>

The aim of our study was to investigate acute post-radiation changes after therapy with ionizing radiation
manifested by erythema or dry, squamous and scurfy skin on a breast. We observed 100 female patients suffering
from an early stage of breast carcinoma. The entering criteria were: age below 70 years, 100% of the
Karnofsky s Score, no tumor bilaterality, tumor in the stage of T1 or T2. The female patients had finished nonradical
surgery consisting from quadrantectomy and deviation of the axilla. Our results showed relationships
between the localization and the level of breast skin change as well as between adjuvant chemotherapy and the
level of breast skin change and, finally, between the size of the average dose of high energy radiation and the
level of breast skin change.

Effects of high-energy ionizing radiation on organ systems in human medicine

Department of Medical Biophysics, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University

Clinic of Pediatric Surgery, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University and University Hospital Martin

Institute of Public Health, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University, Slovak Republic

Acta Medica Martiniana

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The aim of our study was to investigate acute post-radiation changes after therapy with ionizing radiation
manifested by erythema or dry, squamous and scurfy...

Effects of high-energy ionizing radiation on organ systems in human medicine

Published Online: Feb 25, 2014

Page range: 23 - 27

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acm-2013-0019

Keywords
radiotherapy, breast skin change, skin erythema, total dose of radiation

This content is open access.

Effects of high-energy ionizing radiation on organ systems in human medicine

Published Online: Feb 25, 2014

Page range: 23 - 27

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acm-2013-0019

Keywordsradiotherapy, breast skin change, skin erythema, total dose of radiation

This content is open access.

Keywords
radiotherapy, breast skin change, skin erythema, total dose of radiation