There are two kinds of radiation side effects: early and late. Early side effects, such asnauseaandfatigue, usually don’t last long. They may start during or right after treatment and last for several weeks after it ends, but then they get better. Late side effects, such as lung orhear...
2670: Captopril mitigates radiation-induced cardiopulmonary side effects only if the lung is spareddoi:10.1016/S0167-8140(24)02840-8Julia WiedemannUilke BrouwerJeffery SewdihalHerman H.W. SilljéMichael G. DickinsonRudolf A. de BoerRobert P. Coppes...
Radiation esophagitis (RE) and Radiation-induced lung injury (RILI) are the main side effects of radiotherapy for esophageal squamous cell cancer (ESCC), which seriously affect the quality of life and therapeutic effect of patients. Then, how to reduce the incidence of RE and RILI is an ...
The effects of pentoxifylline at a dose of 400 mg, taken orally three times a day for eight weeks, have proven to improve clinical signs, symptoms, and a reduction in lung fibrosis [77]. It significantly reduces the presence of fibrosis with alpha tocopherol (vitamin E) for six months [...
Led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the study covered almost 1,500 patients from Penn Medicine. It was the first large review of data across several cancer types including lung, brain, head and neck...
The lung is one of the most sensitive tissues to ionizing radiation, thus, radiation-induced lung injury (RILI) stays a key dose-limiting factor of thoracic radiotherapy. However, there is still little progress in the effective treatment of RILI. Ras-rel
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Radiation Therapy Combined with Intraarterial Chemotherapy of Nonoperable Non-Small-Cell Lung CancerRadiotherapy is at the moment the standard treatment for nonoperable localized non-small-cell bronchogenic carcinoma. The 5-year survival rate has been reported to be between 6% and 9%. Numerous ...
Then the word, which was not spoken directly to me but to his nurse practioner as I was making my two-week appointment in the reception area outside the examining room: “She looks classic Cushings. I’ll be interested to get those results.” ...
Strictly speaking radiation is not a “drug”; radiation has the ability to produce lung disease via several pathways. The cytotoxic effects of radiation are well recognized. The changes in tissue include marked nuclear atypia of the type II pneumocytes (Fig. 12.6A) and other cells, densefibrosi...