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ArticleRadiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology2020

Low dose radiation therapy for COVID-19 pneumonia: A double-edged sword.

Amirhosein Kefayat, Fatemeh Ghahremani

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In one paragraph

Article in Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04390412 (Assessment of Adding Low Dose Pulmonary Radiotherapy to the National Protocol of COVID-19 Management), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT04390412 phase1 / phase2unknown statusnot on this map

Assessment of Adding Low Dose Pulmonary Radiotherapy to the National Protocol of COVID-19 Management: A Pilot Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorShahid Beheshti University of Medical SciencesRan2020 to 2020Enrolled5ConditionsCOVID, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)ArmsLow Dose Radiotherapy
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Low-Dose Whole-Lung Irradiation for COVID-19 Pneumonia: Short Course Results.International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics · 2020
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  4. In Regard to Shuryak et al.International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics · 2021
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  7. Low-Dose Whole-Lung Irradiation for COVID-19 Pneumonia: Final Results of a Pilot Study.International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics · 2021
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  16. Radiotherapy for COVID-19: Primum non nocere.Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Amirhosein KefayatDepartment of Oncology, Cancer Prevention Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan 81746-73461, Iran.
Fatemeh GhahremaniDepartment of Medical Physics and Radiotherapy, Arak School of Paramedicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak 38481-76941, Iran. Electronic address: F.ghahremani@arakmu.ac.ir.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsPneumonia, ViralBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32342874
PMCPMC7169900

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