Hello.
I’m new to the forum.
I am living in Portugal and would like to ask whether one of you knows if there are any RT experts here? I just found a post from 2017 where there weren’t any experts mentioned, but hope this has changed in the meantime. 🫣
I had to undergo hand surgery in August of this year and apparently this kicked-off Dupuytren for me. At the moment it’s just nodules, but they are popping up rather fast. No contractions though, maybe one or two little strands starting to form, but I guess this is still early stage.
My hand surgeon confirmed the Dupuytren condition and said I should wait until I have a contraction of a finger and then we would do surgery or PNF (the “needle option, sorry, don’t know the proper word in English).
However, I have read here that RT might be able to stop or delay the further development. So I was wondering if there are any RT experts in Portugal that I could talk to.
Thank you. 🙏🏻

Hi SpanishBuddha -
Thank you very much for your reply and the link. I will gladly have a look.

In the meantime I also found one address at the Algarve of a clinic that states that they do "low-dose radiation therapy for benign pathologies such as early stages of Morbus Dupuytren and Ledderhose". See link.

https://www.jcs.pt/en/medical-specialiti...ncer-treatments

For now my plan is to continue to monitor the development until January. Then it's 3 months. And then I will speak to the clinic here in Faro to check about their experience with DD. Visiting Prof. Seegenschmiedt might be a really good alternative and I will definitely be looking into this as well.

Thank you again for your support. I hope you are doing fine.

All the best,
Larissa