Rheumatology

ASTRO 2025

ASTRO 2025 Annual Meeting

Questions discussed in this category

When is the ideal time in the disease course to offer radiotherapy for Dupuytren's disease for the most optimal outcomes?

Do patients still derive significant benefit if radiation is offered outside the proliferative phase? This question is part of our collaborat...

2 Answers available

Would you offer re-irradiation LDRT for someone with osteoarthritis or tendinitis if symptoms recur?

If yes, what time frame would you potentially offer this? If they had complete relief in one joint and partial relief in another after 2 courses, woul...

2 Answers available

When in the treatment of OA do you think it is optimal to offer LDRT?

Many guidelines continue to list LDRT as a non-primary/secondary intervention; do you wait to offer LDRT until after trial of conventional primary int...

1 Answer available

Papers discussed in this category

Strahlenther Onkol, 2021 Oct

Low-dose radiotherapy for painful osteoarthritis of the elderly: A multicenter analysis of 970 patients with 1185 treated sites.

Strahlenther Onkol, 2010 Jan 28

Radiotherapy in early-stage Dupuytren's contracture. Long-term results after 13 years.

Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys.,

Radiotherapy optimization in early-stage Dupuytren's contracture: first results of a randomized clinical study.

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 1996 Nov 01

Radiotherapy for prevention of disease progression in early-stage Dupuytren's contracture: initial and long-term results.

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al], 1997 Jan

[Radiotherapy in the early stage of Dupuytren's disease. The indications, technic and long-term results].

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2025 Sep 28

Toxicities and Quality of Life following Observation or Radiation Therapy for Dupuytren's disease: Three year secondary analysis data from the Prevention Group of the International DEPART Randomized Trial.

Ann Rheum Dis, 2019 Jan

Effectiveness of low-dose radiation therapy on symptoms in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomised, double-blinded, sham-controlled trial.

Osteoarthritis and cartilage, 2018 Jul 07

Lack of beneficial effects of low-dose radiation therapy on hand osteoarthritis symptoms and inflammation: a randomised, blinded, sham-controlled trial.

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al], 2021 Nov 01

ArthroRad trial: multicentric prospective and randomized single-blinded trial on the effect of low-dose radiotherapy for painful osteoarthritis depending on the dose-results after 3 months' follow-up.

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al], 2023 Oct 10

ArthroRad trial: randomized multicenter single-blinded trial on the effect of low-dose radiotherapy for painful osteoarthritis-final results after 12-month follow-up.

Frontiers in immunology, 2022 Jan 03

Low-Dose Radiotherapy Leads to a Systemic Anti-Inflammatory Shift in the Pre-Clinical K/BxN Serum Transfer Model and Reduces Osteoarthritic Pain in Patients.

The British journal of radiology, 2015 May 08

Radiotherapy for non-malignant disorders: state of the art and update of the evidence-based practice guidelines.

Related Topics in Rheumatology