Open AccessComparison of Radiation Pneumonitis in Lung Cancer Patients Treated with HT versus IMRT and Circulating Lymphocyte Subsets as Predicting Risk Factors
Author(s) -
Xin Zhang,
Dan Yang,
Yong Jiang,
Luo Hy,
Can Wang,
Dan Tao,
Xianfeng Liu,
Yongyang Lei,
Yongzhong Wu,
Wei Zhou
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of inflammation research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.656
H-Index - 33
ISSN - 1178-7031
DOI - 10.2147/jir.s328955
Subject(s) - medicine , tomotherapy , lung cancer , radiation therapy , univariate analysis , cd8 , gastroenterology , lymphocyte , radiation pneumonitis , logistic regression , nuclear medicine , stage (stratigraphy) , incidence (geometry) , oncology , multivariate analysis , immune system , immunology , biology , paleontology , physics , optics
We sought to compare the symptomatic radiation pneumonitis (RP) in lung cancer patients treated with helical tomotherapy (HT) versus intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), and examine the predictive value of circulating lymphocyte subsets affecting the occurrence of RP.