Ultra-high dose rate (FLASH) radiotherapy: Silver bullet or fool's gold?

JD Wilson, EM Hammond, GS Higgins… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Radiotherapy is a cornerstone of both curative and palliative cancer care. However,
radiotherapy is severely limited by radiation-induced toxicities. If these toxicities could be …

Physics and biology of ultrahigh dose-rate (FLASH) radiotherapy: a topical review

N Esplen, MS Mendonca… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrahigh dose-rate radiotherapy (RT), or'FLASH'therapy, has gained significant momentum
following various in vivo studies published since 2014 which have demonstrated a reduction …

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 …

The challenge of ionisation chamber dosimetry in ultra-short pulsed high dose-rate Very High Energy Electron beams

M McManus, F Romano, ND Lee, W Farabolini… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
High dose-rate radiotherapy, known as FLASH, has been shown to increase the differential
response between healthy and tumour tissue. Moreover, Very High Energy Electrons …

PHASER: A platform for clinical translation of FLASH cancer radiotherapy

PG Maxim, SG Tantawi, BW Loo Jr - Radiotherapy and Oncology, 2019 - Elsevier
Pluridirectional high-energy agile scanning electronic radiotherapy (PHASER) is next-
generation medical linac technology for ultra-rapid highly conformal image-guided radiation …

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 …

Perspectives on the generation of electron beams from plasma-based accelerators and their near and long term applications

C Joshi, S Corde, WB Mori - Physics of Plasmas, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This article first gives the authors' perspectives on how the field of plasma-based
acceleration (PBA) developed and how the current experiments, theory, and simulations are …

An experimental study of focused very high energy electron beams for radiotherapy

K Kokurewicz, E Brunetti, A Curcio, D Gamba… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Very high energy electron (VHEE) beams have been proposed as an alternative
radiotherapy modality to megavoltage photons; they penetrate deeply without significant …

Radiotherapy and systemic therapies: focus on head and neck Cancer

F De Felice, CG Cattaneo, P Franco - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This review provides some highlights in the current radio (chemo) therapy
strategy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). The aim is to lead to a better …

[HTML][HTML] FLASH radiotherapy treatment planning and models for electron beams

M Rahman, A Trigilio, G Franciosini, R Moeckli… - Radiotherapy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The FLASH effect designates normal tissue sparing at ultra-high dose rate (UHDR,> 40
Gy/s) compared to conventional dose rate (∼ 0.1 Gy/s) irradiation while maintaining tumour …