A doctoral student of Prof. SUM Sławomir Wilczyński, PhD, Joanna Kondziołka, designed, implemented and evaluated a cosmetic product in aerosol form intended for the care of skin exposed to ionising radiation.
- The product cares for the skin of patients after radiotherapy. The research was conducted on women with breast cancer - because this area is troublesome to care for and relatively sensitive to ionising radiation. The preparation developed by Dr Joanna Kondziołka serves to minimise the effects of acute radiation reaction, says Prof Wilczyński, Head of the Department of Basic Biomedical Sciences at WNF SUM.
As he adds: - 'Once again, we find out how much science is responsible for developing new medical technologies, drugs and treatment procedures that significantly improve people's health and life expectancy, and what we deal with every day at our university has a real impact on the lives of all of us. It should be added that as many as 8 million patients a year suffer from acute radiation reactions.
- Our findings have just been published in one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the field of radiation oncology: International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics," says Prof Wilczynski.
'This scientific report has the potential to change the way we assess and monitor skin radiation reactions in patients undergoing radiotherapy. - Using the hyperspectral imaging method, we have developed an objective and quantitative way to measure the concentration of haemoglobin in the skin, which strongly correlates with the degree of radiation reaction, adds Prof Wilczynski. - Our research opens the way to personalised care for cancer patients. Being able to detect lesions early, before visible clinical symptoms appear, is a step forward towards making treatment safer and more effective. The results we present are proof that we are moving from qualitative scales to objective quantitative measurements, which is the future of medicine.
