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 …

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 …

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 …

Biological benefits of ultra-high dose rate FLASH radiotherapy: sleeping beauty awoken

MC Vozenin, JH Hendry, CL Limoli - Clinical oncology, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract FLASH radiotherapy (FLASH-RT) is a technology that could modify the way
radiotherapy is delivered in the future. This technique involves the ultra-fast delivery of …

Design, implementation, and in vivo validation of a novel proton FLASH radiation therapy system

ES Diffenderfer, II Verginadis, MM Kim… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose Recent studies suggest that ultrahigh-dose-rate,“FLASH,” electron radiation
therapy (RT) decreases normal tissue damage while maintaining tumor response compared …

Treatment of a first patient with FLASH-radiotherapy

J Bourhis, WJ Sozzi, PG Jorge, O Gaide, C Bailat… - Radiotherapy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background When compared to conventional radiotherapy (RT) in pre-clinical studies,
FLASH-RT was shown to reproducibly spare normal tissues, while preserving the anti-tumor …

The advantage of FLASH radiotherapy confirmed in mini-pig and cat-cancer patients

MC Vozenin, P De Fornel, K Petersson… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Purpose: Previous studies using FLASH radiotherapy (RT) in mice showed a marked
increase of the differential effect between normal tissue and tumors. To stimulate clinical …

Long-term neurocognitive benefits of FLASH radiotherapy driven by reduced reactive oxygen species

P Montay-Gruel, MM Acharya… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Here, we highlight the potential translational benefits of delivering FLASH radiotherapy
using ultra-high dose rates (> 100 Gy⋅ s− 1). Compared with conventional dose-rate …

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 …