Low dose radiation therapy as a potential life saving treatment for COVID-19-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)

G Dhawan, R Kapoor, R Dhawan, R Singh… - Radiotherapy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The new coronavirus COVID-19 disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 was declared a global
public health emergency by WHO on Jan 30, 2020. Despite massive efforts from various …

Low-dose radiation therapy for benign pathologies

LT Royo, GA Redondo, MÁ Pianetta… - Reports of Practical …, 2020 - journals.viamedica.pl
Radiotherapy (RT) has always been a mainstay for malignant tumors therapy, but it is also
used for benign pathology. The application of low or intermediate doses of RT has been …

[HTML][HTML] Is low dose radiation therapy a potential treatment for COVID-19 pneumonia?

C Kirkby, M Mackenzie - Radiotherapy and Oncology, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Fatal cases of COVID-19 are characterised by acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS),
sepsis, pneumonia and respiratory failure [1]. The high transmission rate of the virus and the …

[HTML][HTML] How radiotherapy was historically used to treat pneumonia: could it be useful today?

EJ Calabrese, G Dhawan - The Yale journal of biology and …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
X-ray therapy was used to treat pneumonia during the first half of the 20th century. Fifteen
studies report that approximately 700 cases of bacterial (lobar and bronchopneumonia) …

Low-dose radiation therapy in the management of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia (LOWRAD-Cov19): Preliminary report

N Sanmamed, P Alcantara, E Cerezo… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose Low-dose radiation therapy (LD-RT) has been shown to have an anti-inflammatory
effect, and preliminary results suggest it is feasible to treat patients with coronavirus disease …

[PDF][PDF] Anti-inflammatory effects of low-dose radiotherapy

M Arenas, S Sabater, V Hernández… - Strahlentherapie und …, 2012 - researchgate.net
Radiotherapy (RT) is recognized as one of the main modalities in the treatment of cancer,
and approximately 60% of patients with cancer require RT during the course of their …

Could pulmonary low-dose radiation therapy be an alternative treatment for patients with COVID-19 pneumonia? Preliminary results of a multicenter SEOR-GICOR …

M Arenas, M Algara, G De Febrer, C Rubio… - Strahlentherapie und …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose To evaluate the efficacy and safety of lung low-dose radiation therapy (LD-RT) for
pneumonia in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Materials and methods …

Low-dose radiotherapy for COVID-19 pneumonia treatment: case report, procedure, and literature review

R Del Castillo, D Martinez, GJ Sarria, L Pinillos… - Strahlentherapie und …, 2020 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has set the emergency services in
developing countries on major alert, as the installed response capacities are easily …

Low-dose radiation therapy (LDRT) against cancer and inflammatory or degenerative diseases: Three parallel stories with a common molecular mechanism involving …

E Le Reun, N Foray - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary We reviewed the medical applications of low-dose radiation therapy
(LDRT) in cancer and inflammatory and degenerative diseases by proposing a unified …

COVID-19 pneumonia treated with ultra-low doses of radiotherapy (ULTRA-COVID study): a single institution report of two cases

E Moreno-Olmedo, V Suárez-Gironzini, M Pérez… - Strahlentherapie und …, 2021 - Springer
Introduction Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic,
healthcare systems have focused their efforts into finding a treatment to avoid the fatal …