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 …

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 …

Proton FLASH radiotherapy for the treatment of symptomatic bone metastases: the FAST-01 nonrandomized trial

AE Mascia, EC Daugherty, Y Zhang, E Lee… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance To our knowledge, there have been no clinical trials of ultra-high-dose-rate
radiotherapy delivered at more than 40 Gy/sec, known as FLASH therapy, nor first-in-human …

[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 …

Comparison of FLASH proton entrance and the spread-out Bragg peak dose regions in the sparing of mouse intestinal crypts and in a pancreatic tumor model

MM Kim, II Verginadis, D Goia, A Haertter… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary FLASH radiotherapy is a treatment technique of interest that involves
radiation delivered at ultra-high dose rates> 100 times faster than traditional radiation …

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 …

Normal tissue sparing by FLASH as a function of single-fraction dose: A quantitative analysis

TT Böhlen, JF Germond, J Bourhis, MC Vozenin… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose The FLASH effect designates normal tissue sparing by ultra-high dose rate (UHDR)
compared with conventional dose rate irradiation without compromising tumor control …

Ultra-high dose rate (FLASH) carbon ion irradiation: dosimetry and first cell experiments

W Tinganelli, O Sokol, M Quartieri, A Puspitasari… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose To establish a beam monitoring and dosimetry system to enable the FLASH dose
rate carbon ion irradiation and investigate, at different oxygen concentrations, the in vitro …