Past, present, and future of radiation-induced cardiotoxicity: refinements in targeting, surveillance, and risk stratification

C Bergom, JA Bradley, AK Ng, P Samson, C Robinson… - Cardio Oncology, 2021 - jacc.org
Radiation therapy is an important component of cancer therapy for many malignancies. With
improvements in cardiac-sparing techniques, radiation-induced cardiac dysfunction has …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiac toxicity of thoracic radiotherapy: existing evidence and future directions

K Banfill, M Giuliani, M Aznar, K Franks… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2021 - Elsevier
The impact of radiotherapy on the heart has become an area of interest in recent years.
Many different cardiac dose-volume constraints have been associated with cardiac toxicity …

Association of left anterior descending coronary artery radiation dose with major adverse cardiac events and mortality in patients with non–small cell lung cancer

KM Atkins, TL Chaunzwa, N Lamba… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Radiotherapy accelerates coronary heart disease (CHD), but the dose to critical
cardiac substructures has not been systematically studied in lung cancer. Objective To …

Medical physics challenges in clinical MR-guided radiotherapy

C Kurz, G Buizza, G Landry, F Kamp, M Rabe… - Radiation …, 2020 - Springer
The integration of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for guidance in external beam
radiotherapy has faced significant research and development efforts in recent years. The …

Organs at risk radiation dose constraints

G Noël, D Antoni - Cancer/radiothérapie, 2022 - Elsevier
Dose constraints are essential for performing dosimetry, especially for intensity modulation
and for radiotherapy under stereotaxic conditions. We present the update of the …

[HTML][HTML] Radiotherapy-related lymphopenia affects overall survival in patients with lung cancer

A Abravan, C Faivre-Finn, J Kennedy… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2020 - Elsevier
Introduction Lymphopenia after radiotherapy has an adverse effect on the patient's outcome.
However, the relationship between radiotherapy dose delivery and lymphopenia is not fully …

Nuts and bolts of 4D-MRI for radiotherapy

B Stemkens, ES Paulson… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly being used in the radiotherapy workflow
because of its superior soft tissue contrast and high flexibility in contrast. In addition to …

Association of sinoatrial node radiation dose with atrial fibrillation and mortality in patients with lung cancer

KH Kim, J Oh, G Yang, J Lee, J Kim, S Gwak… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Atrial fibrillation (AF) can develop following thoracic irradiation. However, the
critical cardiac substructure responsible for AF has not been properly studied. Objective To …

[HTML][HTML] Demystifying the results of RTOG 0617: identification of dose sensitive cardiac subregions associated with overall survival

A McWilliam, A Abravan, K Banfill, C Faivre-Finn… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction The RTOG 0617 trial presented a worse survival for patients with lung cancer
treated in the high-dose (74 Gy) arm. In multivariable models, radiation level and whole …

[HTML][HTML] Novel methodology to investigate the effect of radiation dose to heart substructures on overall survival

A McWilliam, J Khalifa, EV Osorio, K Banfill… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose For patients with lung cancer treated with radiation therapy, a dose to the heart is
associated with excess mortality; however, it is often not feasible to spare the whole heart …