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Radiation Therapy of Benign Diseases

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In the period between the two World Wars, radiotherapy was used to induce therapeutic abortions in women at high risk of surgical complications. As surgical abortions have become safer, this indication is no longer current. There remain, however, pregnant patients with pelvic cancers for which treatment delay until fetal viability is judged inadvisable. For some of these patients—notably when cervical dilatation is impeded by the cancer—therapeutic radiation for the cancer will also serve to terminate pregnancy (Morice et al. 2009). Data on the lethal dose to the fetus is limited (and dependent on a number of variables), but it appears similar to that of total-body irradiation in adults, i.e., 6–10 Gy (Hall 2000).

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Roberge, D. (2022). Reproduction. In: Roberge, D., Donaldson, S.S. (eds) Radiation Therapy of Benign Diseases. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2022_365

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