Introduction. The risk of developing side effects after radiotherapy is not only dependent on
radiation dose, but may also be affected by patient-related risk factors. Here we perform a …

Abbreviations: ATS= American Thoracic Society; CAP= community-acquired pneumonia;
CCC= Canadian Consensus Conference; CPAP= continuous positive airway pressure; …

Purpose: Patients treated with identical scheduled show a substantial variation in the degree
of acute and late normal tissue reactions. To identify any possible contributing factors to this …

Radiotherapy is associated with a broad spectrum of early and late normal tissue injury. It is
a basic clinical observation that even within a group of identically treated patients large …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Clinical and dosimetric prognostic factors for radiation
pneumonitis (RP) have been reported after three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D …

Purpose: To determine the clinical, dosimetric, and spatial parameters that correlate with
radiation pneumonitis. Methods and Materials: Patients treated with high-dose radiation for …

Purpose: To correlate the volume of lung irradiated with changes in plasma levels of the
fibrogenic cytokine transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) during radiotherapy (RT), such that …

For patients with unresectable locally-advanced non-small cell lung cancer (LA-NSCLC),
concurrent chemoradiotherapy improves overall survival as compared to sequential …

Purpose To investigate variations of circulating serum levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor
necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), and interleukin-10 (IL-10) during three-dimensional conformal …

Background This meta-analysis aims to ascertain the significance of early lung toxicity with 3-
Dimensional (3D) conformal irradiation for breast carcinomas and identify the sub-groups of …