Revolutionary Rhenium therapy: Defeat skin cancer without pain!

Revolutionary Rhenium therapy: Defeat skin cancer without pain!

Ottakring, Österreich - The skin is our largest organ and is very popular in the warm months. But the sun can also have its dark sides. Every year up to three million cases of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) are reported every year, including both basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). This was reported News.at . Experts suspect that the actual frequency of the diseases is even higher. A look at the statistics shows that Australia with over 1,000 cases per 100,000 people and year has a particularly high incidence.

Again and again the risk factor UV radiation draws attention to itself. This is not only responsible for the increasing skin cancer rates, but also the main cause of NMSC. Another alarming trend is the increase in skin cancer diagnoses in Germany. According to the Barmer-Arzepeport 2025, the number of diagnoses has increased significantly since 2005, with the cases of white skin cancer almost tripled and melanomas have more than doubled. Hautkrebs-Netzwerk emphasizes that especially birth classes are affected from the end of the 1950s.

development and treatment options

What to do about this trend? The treatment options for NMSC are diverse: from surgery to immune treatments to special creams and chemotherapy. Rhenium skin cancer therapy (Rhenium-SCT), which used Rhenium-188, comes into play. This innovative therapy sends beta radiation, which penetrates only two to three millimeters deep into the tissue. Treatment takes place over a period of 30 to 180 minutes and shows promising results: In a interim evaluation of a study with 140 patients, 94.1 percent of the carcinomas treated disappeared completely after one year, as At this point, the age structure of the patients is also interesting: the results show that the study was particularly focused on flat basal or squamous cell carcinomas, which were not thicker than three millimeters and not larger than eight square centimeters. The basic tolerance of the Rhenium SCT is good, with only temporary inflammatory reactions that are reminiscent of a sunburn.

In 2020, around 209,000 people suffered from non-melanotic skin cancer in 2020, with women (96,400) and men (112,300) being evenly distributed. The standardized disease rates show that women with 123.5 and men with 157.6 per 100,000 are significantly affected, such as the data from Krebdaten.de . These disease rates have gone up in recent decades due to increased UV exposure and the increased sunbathing.

particularly at risk are people with light skin type and those who are often exposed to sunburns. However, a positive trend could be recognizable by massive sun protection and conscious handling of UV radiation: the risk of skin cancer seems to decrease in people born after 1980. Nevertheless, the focus remains on prevention and regular skin cancer screening to counter the problem in good time.