Although radiation therapy provides the backbone of primary and adjuvant therapy for
several thoracic malignancies, the lungs have long been known to be exquisitely sensitive to …

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

Radiation therapy is a major treatment modality for management of non-small cell lung
cancer. Radiation pneumonitis is a dose limiting toxicity of radiotherapy, affecting its …

Radiotherapy plays an important role in the treatment of localized primary malignancies
involving the chest wall or intrathoracic malignancies. Secondary effects of radiotherapy on …

Purpose: To assess the difficulty of assigning a definitive clinical diagnosis of radiation (RT)-
induced lung injury in patients irradiated for lung cancer. Methods: Between 1991 and 2003 …

Purpose: To retrospectively evaluate the risk factors for acute radiation pneumonitis (RP)
and long-term prognosis of patients with lung cancer treated by thoracic radiotherapy …

BACKGROUND The authors attempted to determine the incidence of and risk factors for
clinical radiation pneumonitis in patients treated for lung carcinoma. They also sought to …

Purpose: Radiation pneumonitis is a serious complication that develops after thoracic
irradiation. The purpose of this study was to identify prognostic factors for severe radiation …

Purpose: To identify factors that may predict for severe radiation pneumonitis or
pneumonopathy (RP), we reviewed a set of simple, commonly available characteristics …

Classical radiation pneumonitis has been described after single dose whole lung irradiation
in experimental animals where above a threshold dose of irradiation, there is a sigmoid …