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High Dose Radiation (HDR) Therapy – A New Treatment Option?
M. Smith
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Radiation therapy, namely the use of ionising radiation, as a treatment modality for solid tumours was first described in the horse using the isotope radium (Ra-226) in the early 1900s. Over the past century, there has been comparatively limited development of clinical radiotherapy for horses compared with the advances made in other areas of veterinary medicine partly because the clinical need is relatively low, as young to middle aged horses suffer from far fewer forms of neoplasia than other companion animals or humans, and partly because of the significant expense incurred in developing and building facilities designed to safely treat horses with ionising radiation, and the health and safety implications of handing radioactive sources within such a facility ...
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