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 …

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 …

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 …

Hypofractionated FLASH-RT as an effective treatment against glioblastoma that reduces neurocognitive side effects in mice

P Montay-Gruel, MM Acharya, P Gonçalves Jorge… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Purpose: Recent data have shown that single-fraction irradiation delivered to the whole
brain in less than tenths of a second using FLASH radiotherapy (FLASH-RT), does not elicit …

Ultra‐high dose rate dosimetry: challenges and opportunities for FLASH radiation therapy

F Romano, C Bailat, PG Jorge, MLF Lerch… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The clinical translation of FLASH radiotherapy (RT) requires challenges related to dosimetry
and beam monitoring of ultra‐high dose rate (UHDR) beams to be addressed. Detectors …

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 …

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 …

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 …