Hypoxia in solid tumors: how low oxygenation impacts the “Six Rs” of radiotherapy

A Rakotomalala, A Escande, A Furlan… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Radiotherapy is an important component of cancer treatment, with approximately 50% of all
cancer patients receiving radiation therapy during their course of illness. Nevertheless, solid …

Modeling pancreatic cancer in mice for experimental therapeutics

K Mallya, SK Gautam, A Aithal, SK Batra… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly aggressive malignancy that is
characterized by early metastasis, low resectability, high recurrence, and therapy resistance …

MR-guided radiotherapy for liver malignancies

L Boldrini, S Corradini, C Gani, L Henke… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
MR guided radiotherapy represents one of the most promising recent technological
innovations in the field. The possibility to better visualize therapy volumes, coupled with the …

Radiotherapy as a means to increase the efficacy of T-cell therapy in solid tumors

PA Laurent, D Morel, L Meziani, S Depil… - …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells have demonstrated significant improvements in the
treatment of refractory B-cell malignancies that previously showed limited survival. In …

Hypoxia and perfusion in breast cancer: simultaneous assessment using PET/MR imaging

JC Carmona-Bozo, R Manavaki, R Woitek… - European …, 2021 - Springer
Objectives Hypoxia is associated with poor prognosis and treatment resistance in breast
cancer. However, the temporally variant nature of hypoxia can complicate interpretation of …

Longitudinal in-vivo quantification of tumour microvascular heterogeneity by optical coherence angiography in pre-clinical radiation therapy

N Allam, W Jeffrey Zabel, V Demidov, B Jones… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is an emerging cancer treatment due to its logistical
and potential therapeutic benefits as compared to conventional radiotherapy. However, its …

Restricted water diffusion in diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in pancreatic cancer is associated with tumor hypoxia

P Mayer, A Kraft, HR Witzel, N Marnet, N Hörner… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pancreatic cancer is characterized by a dense network of connective
tissue surrounding clusters of cancer cells, the so-called stroma. This ubiquitous connective …

Simulated dose painting of hypoxic sub-volumes in pancreatic cancer stereotactic body radiotherapy

AM Elamir, T Stanescu, A Shessel… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Dose painting of hypoxic tumour sub-volumes using positron-emission tomography (PET)
has been shown to improve tumour control in silico in several sites, predominantly head and …

Assessing the accuracy of bioluminescence image-guided stereotactic body radiation therapy of orthotopic pancreatic tumors using a small animal irradiator

S Rapic, T Samuel, PE Lindsay, S Ansell… - Radiation …, 2022 - meridian.allenpress.com
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) has shown promising results in the treatment of
pancreatic cancer and other solid tumors. However, wide adoption of SBRT remains limited …

Rethinking the potential role of dose painting in personalized ultra-fractionated stereotactic adaptive radiotherapy

H Peng, J Deng, S Jiang, R Timmerman - Frontiers in Oncology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Fractionated radiotherapy was established in the 1920s based upon two principles:(1)
delivering daily treatments of equal quantity, unless the clinical situation requires …