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 …

Flash radiotherapy: Expectations, challenges, and current knowledge

A Borghini, L Labate, S Piccinini, CMV Panaino… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Major strides have been made in the development of FLASH radiotherapy (FLASH RT) in
the last ten years, but there are still many obstacles to overcome for transfer to the clinic to …

Flash radiotherapy: Innovative cancer treatment

JCL Chow, HE Ruda - Encyclopedia, 2023 - mdpi.com
Definition Flash radiotherapy (Flash-RT) is an innovative technique used in radiotherapy for
cancer treatment because it delivers an extremely high dose of radiation (> 40 Gy/s) to the …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of intratumor and local immune response between MV X-ray FLASH and conventional radiotherapies

H Zhu, D Xie, Y Wang, R Huang, X Chen… - Clinical and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Background/Purpose Investigating the antitumor effect and intratumor as well as
local immune response in breast cancer-bearing mice after MV X-ray ultra-high dose rate …

VHEE FLASH sparing effect measured at CLEAR, CERN with DNA damage of pBR322 plasmid as a biological endpoint

HC Wanstall, P Korysko, W Farabolini, R Corsini… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Ultra-high dose rate (UHDR) irradiation has been shown to have a sparing effect on healthy
tissue, an effect known as 'FLASH'. This effect has been studied across several radiation …

Characterization and practical applications of a novel plastic scintillator for online dosimetry for an ultrahigh dose rate (FLASH)

Y Poirier, J Xu, S Mossahebi… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Although flash radiation therapy (FLASH‐RT) is a promising novel technique that
has the potential to achieve a better therapeutic ratio between tumor control and normal …

Radical production with pulsed beams: understanding the transition to FLASH

A Espinosa-Rodriguez, D Sanchez-Parcerisa… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ultra-high dose rate (UHDR) irradiation regimes have the potential to spare normal tissue
while keeping equivalent tumoricidal capacity than conventional dose rate radiotherapy …

Different Mechanisms of DNA Radiosensitization by 8-Bromoadenosine and 2′-Deoxy-2′-fluorocytidine Observed on DNA Origami Nanoframe Supports

L Sala, H Lyshchuk, J Šáchová… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
DNA origami nanoframes with two parallel DNA sequences are used to evaluate the effect of
nucleoside substituents on radiation-induced DNA damage. Double strand breaks (DSB) of …

FLASH-RT does not affect chromosome translocations and junction structures beyond that of CONV-RT dose-rates

PG Barghouth, S Melemenidis, P Montay-Gruel… - Radiotherapy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and purpose The impact of radiotherapy (RT) at ultra high vs conventional dose
rate (FLASH vs CONV) on the generation and repair of DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) is …

Modeling of the FLASH effect for ion beam radiation therapy

H Song, Y Kim, W Sung - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose Normal tissue sparing has been shown in preclinical studies under the ultra-fast
dose rate condition, so-called FLASH radiotherapy. The preclinical and clinical FLASH …