Plesiotherapy for non-melanoma skin cancer: innovating to overcome!

Background: The non-surgical management of non-melanoma skin cancers is an area requiring clinical investigation. Radiotherapy has a role in treatment for a defined subset of patients.

Aims: The application of radiotherapy is subject to availability of proper equipment, non-availability of which precludes appropriate radiotherapy in most centers in third world countries.

Radiation therapy: experience in lndian patients.

Radiotherapy is an essential component along with surgery and other modalities of treatment in cancer therapy. The authors have briefly described the subject along with their experience in Indian perspective. The current literature has been reviewed.