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FLASH radiotherapy: from preclinical promise to the first human treatment

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Link to the Lausanne article:

sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.radonc.2019.06.019

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Thanks for posting the science, Puxi...My SBRT sessions took about 5 minutes once they started...FLASH is 300 times faster.... The science is coming and it gives me HOPE !!!!

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Once perfected... I wonder if it will have any implications for retreatment for those who have already had RT as a primary curative modality..... Probably too far off in the future for me but an interesting consideration

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puxi in reply to Tommyj2

Most interesting is that this technology was already tried during the 70's....

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Looks impressive - who knows how far it can be taken with built for purpose equipment.

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puxi in reply to Bjry

I think that before building it on purpose, they need to understand the mechanism. For the moment, is just trial and error as far as I understand (not so far of what is being done since 70y in this domain, despite "advocates" (see T_Allen) claim that there is science behind just because "peer reviewed papers" are written...).

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