Towards clinical translation of FLASH radiotherapy

MC Vozenin, J Bourhis, M Durante - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2022 - nature.com
The ultimate goal of radiation oncology is to eradicate tumours without toxicity to non-
malignant tissues. FLASH radiotherapy, or the delivery of ultra-high dose rates of radiation …

FLASH radiotherapy: current knowledge and future insights using proton-beam therapy

JR Hughes, JL Parsons - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
FLASH radiotherapy is the delivery of ultra-high dose rate radiation several orders of
magnitude higher than what is currently used in conventional clinical radiotherapy, and has …

Reinventing radiobiology in the light of FLASH radiotherapy

CL Limoli, MC Vozenin - Annual Review of Cancer Biology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Ultrahigh–dose rate FLASH radiotherapy (FLASH-RT) is a potentially paradigm-shifting
treatment modality that holds the promise of expanding the therapeutic index for nearly any …

Radiobiology of the FLASH effect

AA Friedl, KM Prise, KT Butterworth… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Radiation exposures at ultrahigh dose rates (UHDRs) at several orders of magnitude greater
than in current clinical radiotherapy (RT) have been shown to manifest differential …

Ultra‐high dose rate electron beams and the FLASH effect: from preclinical evidence to a new radiotherapy paradigm

E Schüler, M Acharya, P Montay‐Gruel… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In their seminal paper from 2014, Fauvadon et al. coined the term FLASH irradiation to
describe ultra‐high‐dose rate irradiation with dose rates greater than 40 Gy/s, which results …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor hypoxia and radiotherapy: A major driver of resistance even for novel radiotherapy modalities

C Beckers, M Pruschy, I Vetrugno - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Hypoxia in solid tumors is an important predictor of poor clinical outcome to radiotherapy.
Both physicochemical and biological processes contribute to a reduced sensitivity of hypoxic …

A potential revolution in cancer treatment: A topical review of FLASH radiotherapy

Y Gao, R Liu, CW Chang, S Charyyev… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
FLASH radiotherapy (RT) is a novel technique in which the ultrahigh dose rate (UHDR)(≥
40 Gy/s) is delivered to the entire treatment volume. Recent outcomes of in vivo studies …

Understanding the FLASH effect to unravel the potential of ultra-high dose rate irradiation

H Kacem, A Almeida, N Cherbuin… - International journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
A reemergence of research implementing radiation delivery at ultra-high dose rates
(UHDRs) has triggered intense interest in the radiation sciences and has opened a new field …

FLASH: New intersection of physics, chemistry, biology, and cancer medicine

MC Vozenin, BW Loo Jr, S Tantawi, PG Maxim… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Ultrahigh dose rate, FLASH radiotherapy has emerged as one of the most promising
innovations over the past decade in the field of radiation oncology, with the potential to …

Model studies of the role of oxygen in the FLASH effect

V Favaudon, R Labarbe, CL Limoli - Medical physics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Current radiotherapy facilities are standardized to deliver dose rates around 0.1–0.4 Gy/s in
2 Gy daily fractions, designed to deliver total accumulated doses to reach the tolerance limit …