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What is "Total Skin Electron" therapy?
Patinets with certain lymphomas of the skin are treated with total skin electron beam therapy. Unlike other forms of radiation treatments, which use photons to treat cancer, this particular type uses electrons. Electrons are useful because most of the radiation dose is directed absorbed into the skin.
TSEB is usually done over 36 treatments (fractions), Monday through Friday. Because we give a homogenous dose to the entire skin, the patient is standing during treatment. We use the Stanford technique, where the patient stands in 3 different positions one day, then 3 different positions the following day. You continue this 2-day pattern until treatment finishes.
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