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 …

[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 …

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 …

FLASH radiotherapy: history and future

B Lin, F Gao, Y Yang, D Wu, Y Zhang, G Feng… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The biological effects of radiation dose to organs at risk surrounding tumor target volumes
are a major dose-limiting constraint in radiotherapy. This can mean that the tumor cannot be …

FLASH proton radiotherapy spares normal epithelial and mesenchymal tissues while preserving sarcoma response

A Velalopoulou, IV Karagounis, GM Cramer, MM Kim… - Cancer research, 2021 - AACR
In studies of electron and proton radiotherapy, ultrahigh dose rates of FLASH radiotherapy
appear to produce fewer toxicities than standard dose rates while maintaining local tumor …

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 …

Abdominopelvic FLASH irradiation improves PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibition in preclinical models of ovarian cancer

JT Eggold, S Chow, S Melemenidis, J Wang… - Molecular cancer …, 2022 - AACR
Abstract Treatment of advanced ovarian cancer using PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint
blockade shows promise; however, current clinical trials are limited by modest response …