Is radiation dermatitis or radio dermatitis only caused from ionizing radiation?

My guess would be yes. As many as 95% of patients receiving radiation therapy for cancer treatment will have some form of skin eruption due to the radiation. High frequency ultraviolet, X-rays and gama rays are all ionizing radiation. Any electromagnetic radiation source with energy abouve a few Electron Volts is ionizing.

I will have to leave it to one of the doctors here to discus the biopsy issue.

Do you glow in the dark?

@marialisa The diagnosis is a a combination of history (exposure to ionizing radiation), clinical presentation and histological diagnosis. It’s caused by direct damage of the ionizing radiation on the skin.

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How is radiation dermatitis proven after a skin biopsy is done?

@marialisa Prehaps @Rarebear will know. I do not.

@marialisa It’s a histological diagnosis.