Patients who have lung cancer are treated frequently with high doses of thoracic irradiation.
A portion of normal lung tissue is included in the irradiated volume; clinical studies showed …

The issue of toxicity is a primary concern for chest irradiation, because it is a dose-limiting
toxicity and because in some circumstances it can alleviate the survival benefit of radiation …

Radiation-induced pulmonary injury is common following treatment for a variety of tumors in
and around the thorax. While symptomatic injury is unusual, subclinical injury identified by …

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 …

The management of cancer has continued to advance with the development of new
chemotherapeutic agents and improved techniques of radiation therapy. Although new …

Purpose: To evaluate the incidence of lung complications and leukemia recurrences after
two different doses to the lungs during total body irradiation. Methods and Materials: Seventy …

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

Radiation therapy is used to treat many intrathoracic and chest wall malignancies. A variety
of changes may occur after radiation therapy to the thorax. Radiation therapy produces …

High doses of ionizing radiation (> 40 Gy) cause severe lung fibrosis in approximately 5% of
the cases. There is a twofold increase when chemotherapy is added to ionizing radiation …

Simple Summary Total body irradiation is an integral part of many conditioning regimens
prior to allogeneic stem cell transplantation. It is a large-field technique affecting all organs …