Hematologic Disease
Study results from National Institutes of Health in the area of hematologic disease published
Published in Blood Weekly, November 29th, 2007
According to recent research published in the journal Bone Marrow Transplantation, "Our purpose was to determine if total body irradiation (TBI) with lung dose reduction protects against subsequent radiation-induced deterioration in pulmonary function. Between July 1997 and August 2004, 181 consecutive patients with hematologic malignancies received fractionated TBI before allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplant."
"The first 89 patients were treated to a total dose of 13.6 Gy. Thereafter, total body dose was decreased to 12 Gy with lung dose reduction to 9 or 6 Gy. All patients underwent pulmonary function test evaluation before treatment, 90 days...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2007-11-29)
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