Radiation-induced lung toxicity predictors: Retrospective analysis of 90 patients treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy for stage I non-small-cell lung carcinoma.

CONCLUSION: The discovery of predictive factors for radiation pneumonitis is difficult due to the rarity of this complication, especially with an 8×7.5Gy schedule. Radiation pneumonitis seems to be correlated with the volume irradiated at high doses, which is in contrast to the known knowledge about the organs in parallel. This finding leads us to raise the hypothesis that vessel damage, organs in series, occurring during hypofractionated radiotherapy could be responsible for this toxicity. PMID: 32173269 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Cancer Radiotherapie - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Tags: Cancer Radiother Source Type: research