[Role of radiotherapy in haematology]

Abstract

The management of myeloid and lymphoid disease is essentially based on chemotherapy and targeted therapies. Since radiotherapy could be responsible for severe late toxicities, essentially due to conventional bidimensional irradiation techniques, many trials have attempted to omit radiotherapy or to scale down the dose in their therapeutic strategy. Nevertheless, radiotherapy still plays a role for curative or symptomatic purposes.

Keywords: Leukemia; Lymphomas; Lymphomes, Leucémies, Plasmocytomes, Myélomes, Radiothérapie; Myelomas; Plasmocytomes; Radiotherapy.