Radiation damage to the gastrointestinal tract: mechanisms, diagnosis, and management

M Hauer-Jensen, J Wang, M Boerma… - Current opinion in …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
… during or within 3 months of radiation therapy, or delayed (chronic) when it occurs more than
3 months after radiation therapy. Early intestinal radiation toxicity affects quality of life at the …

[HTML][HTML] Overview of gastrointestinal toxicity of radiation therapy

BG Czito, JJ Meyer, CG Willett - UpToDate (last updated Apr 13, 2020), 2017 - medilib.ir
… in the gastrointestinal tract can also influence the clinical presentation. The functional
arrangement of organs in the GI tract can … Much of the luminal gastrointestinal tract has this type of …

Radiation-induced damage in the upper gastrointestinal tract: clinical presentation, diagnostic tests and treatment options

ANAM Afifi, M Powerski, D Jechorek, TB Brunner… - Best Practice & …, 2020 - Elsevier
… the stents 17–79 days after the radiation therapy. This report suggests, that even … , radiation
therapy should ideally precede stent placement, since the events following radiation therapy

Role of radiotherapy in the treatment of lymphomas of the gastrointestinal tract

BMP Aleman, RLM Haas… - Best Practice & Research …, 2010 - Elsevier
… CT scans) and radiation techniques and delivery (3D conformal RT and IMRT: intensity
modulated radiation therapy) have optimised the treatment of the stomach with radiation (Fig. 1). …

[HTML][HTML] Patients with brain metastases from gastrointestinal tract cancer treated with whole brain radiation therapy: prognostic factors and survival

S Bartelt, F Momm, C Weissenberger… - World Journal of …, 2004 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… the group of gastrointestinal tumors, … gastrointestinal tract (ie epithelial tumors of the
esophagus, stomach, colon, sigma, and rectum) who were treated with whole brain radiation therapy

Radiation injury in the gastrointestinal tract

SM Cohn, A Vidrich, SJ Bickston - Yamada's Textbook of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… of radiation therapy have … gastrointestinal morbidity resulting from radiation therapy.
Nevertheless, most patients experience gastrointestinal symptoms associated with acute radiation

Gastrointestinal tract radiation tolerance

LL Gunderson, JA Martenson - Radiation tolerance of normal tissues, 1989 - karger.com
… patients were treated by radiation therapy alone or radiation therapy combined with infusion
5-… /24 h over 5 days in combination with 10 Gy of radiation therapy per week, given in 2.5-Gy …

Radiation-induced damage in the lower gastrointestinal tract: Clinical presentation, diagnostic tests and treatment options

IK Araujo, D Munoz-Guglielmetti, M Molla - Best Practice & Research …, 2020 - Elsevier
… patients will receive radiation therapy (RT) [2]. External beam radiation therapy (EBRT) is …
of malignancies, with an important role in gastrointestinal (GI), gynaecological and urological …

[HTML][HTML] Update on the management of the gastrointestinal effects of radiation

H McCaughan, S Boyle, JJ McGoran - … Journal of Gastrointestinal …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
gastrointestinal tract may be adversely affected by radiation. … Quality evidence exists mainly
for radiation induced effects in … radiation therapy for cancer, addressing the gastrointestinal

Considering the role of radiation therapy for gastrointestinal stromal tumor

KS Corbin, HL Kindler, SL Liauw - OncoTargets and therapy, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
… With an estimated 4,000–6,000 cases per year in the US, Citation1 gastrointestinal stromal
tumors (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal tumor of the gastrointestinal tract. Citation…