Effectiveness of low-dose radiation therapy to improve mortality of COVID-19.
J Cancer Res Clin Oncol
; 147(9): 2621-2624, 2021 Sep.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1293373
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Performing low-dose radiation therapy (LDRT) is a new approach to treat pneumonia resulting from COVID-19 disease. This paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of LDRT in treating COVID-19 patients.METHODS:
Medline was searched for "low-dose" and "radiation therapy" and "COVID-19" and "pneumonia" and "inflammation", to retrieve papers that published on low-dose radiation therapy to improve mortality of COVID-19 patients. Only clinical investigations that included original and case report papers were selected for this paper.RESULTS:
The completed clinical trials that have performed LDRT to treat COVID-19 showed that the effectiveness of LDRT in treating COVID-19 was up to 90%.CONCLUSION:
The vast majority of primary and secondary outcomes of clinical trial investigations regarding LDRT in treating COVID-19 found that LDRT can be considered a feasible treatment to improve mortality of COVID-19 patients.Keywords
Full text:
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Radiotherapy
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SARS-CoV-2
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
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Reviews
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
J Cancer Res Clin Oncol
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S00432-021-03707-2
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