Nardone Valerio, D'Ippolito Emma, Grassi Roberta, Sangiovanni Angelo, Gagliardi Federico, De Marco Giuseppina, Menditti Vittorio Salvatore, D'Ambrosio Luca, Cioce Fabrizio, Boldrini Luca, Salvestrini Viola, Greco Carlo, Desideri Isacco, De Felice Francesca, D'Onofrio Ida, Grassi Roberto, Reginelli Alfonso, Cappabianca Salvatore
Department of Precision Medicine, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", 80138 Naples, Italy.
Radiation Oncology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Largo Agostino Gemelli, 00168 Rome, Italy.
J Pers Med. 2022 Oct 9;12(10):1677. doi: 10.3390/jpm12101677.
Despite being usually delivered in oncological patients, radiotherapy can be used as a successful treatment for several non-malignant disorders. Even though this use of radiotherapy has been scarcely investigated since the 1950s, more recent interest has actually shed the light on this approach. Thus, the aim of this narrative review is to analyze the applications of non-oncological radiotherapy in different disorders. Key references were derived from a PubMed query. Hand searching and clinicaltrials.gov were also used. This review contains a narrative report and a critical discussion of non-oncological radiotherapy approaches. In conclusion, non-oncological radiotherapy is a safe and efficacious approach to treat several disorders that needs to be further investigated and used in clinical practice.
尽管放射治疗通常应用于肿瘤患者,但它也可作为几种非恶性疾病的成功治疗方法。自20世纪50年代以来,尽管对放射治疗的这种应用鲜有研究,但最近的关注实际上已使这种方法受到关注。因此,本叙述性综述的目的是分析非肿瘤放射治疗在不同疾病中的应用。主要参考文献来自PubMed查询。还使用了手工检索和clinicaltrials.gov。本综述包含非肿瘤放射治疗方法的叙述性报告和批判性讨论。总之,非肿瘤放射治疗是一种安全有效的治疗多种疾病的方法,需要进一步研究并应用于临床实践。