During my ongoing research on DC and Ledderhose I ran across this page in which a doctor gives advice to a woman whose daughter has just been diagnosed:

http://www.drgreene.org/body.cfm?id=21&;action=detail&ref=649

Confined to a wheelchair for a lifetime? Radiotherapy "now been shown not to work"?

I noticed the page was written in 1997 but reviewed earlier this year. Just goes to show how misunderstood DC is out there and why we are so lucky to draw from the variety of experience on this forum. I sure hope the mother in question found it!

Try http://www.drgreene.org/body.cfm?id=21&;action=detail&ref=649 for the link.

That's so odd but yes, remove the semicolon and you'll get the article in question.

Pixi,

I'm a physician myself. But not in this field. Like most of you I was told to wait for contracture and then have surgery. But I hit the medical lituature instead. I have access to subscription only search engines. Medical journals and textbooks that are much more accurate than sites like you can get to on google. When I read the medical literature I went to a friend who is a very respected radiation oncologist with a list of publications of his own. He confirmed the validity of radiation in early Dupuytren's. It got a bad name a long time ago because it does NOT reverse contratures. He gave me the name of another highly respected man close to my home and he knew exactly what I was talking about and agreed with the treatment too. I have had excellent results. The hand surgeon who made the diagnosis also insists Radiation doesn't work. But it was presented , by invitation at the American Society for Surgey of the Hand last fall. That's kind of Mecca for hand surgeons.

And only 85% (If I remember right) had not progressed at 5 years. That means some do progress sooner.

I couldn't make your link work but I don't think anyone in this forum is in a wheel chair.

Don't panic.

Colleen