In this issue, Yorke et al.(1) from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center describe an
association between the dosimetric parameters from the lung dose–volume histogram …

Pulmonary injury is more common in patients undergoing radiation therapy for lungs and
other thoracic malignancies. Recently with the use of most-advanced technologies powerful …

Purpose Symptomatic radiation pneumonitis (SRP), which decreases quality of life (QoL), is
the most common pulmonary complication in patients receiving breast irradiation. If it occurs …

Background The main complication after hypofractionated radiotherapy for lung carcinoma
is radiation-induced lung toxicity, which can be divided into radiation pneumonitis (acute …

Radiation-induced normal tissue reactions of the lung, ie pneumonitis or fibrosis, are
common side effects occurring approximately 6–12 weeks and 1–2 years after completion of …

Materials and methods. The aim was to retrospectively investigate correlations between
potential predictive parameters and the occurrence of radiation-induced lung injury in …

Chemo-radiotherapy and systemic therapies have proven satisfactory outcomes as standard
treatments for various thoracic malignancies; however, adverse pulmonary effects, like …

Simple Summary Total body irradiation is an essential large-field technique enabling
myeloablation before allogeneic stem cell transplantation. With its field encompassing all …

Background: Total-body irradiation (TBI) is used to condition patients before bone marrow
transplant. A variety of tbi treatment strategies have been described and implemented, but …

Thoracic malignancies are often a difficult group of tumors to treat definitively as the
radiation doses needed to achieve a high probability for tumor control are often associated …