ReviewBritish journal of cancer2025
Cardiotoxicity following thoracic radiotherapy for lung cancer.
Review in British journal of cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Associations between reported atrial fibrillation burden and cardiac substructure dosimetric variables in patients receiving thoracic radiotherapy for malignancies involving the thorax: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Pooled it
- Evaluation of Cardiac Function After Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Lung Tumors: Results of the Prospective Explorative Heart-Lung Study.Advances in radiation oncology · 2026Article
- Radiotherapy-Induced Side Effects: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Prevention and Treatments.MedComm · 2026Review
- Clinical implementation of automated IMRT/VMAT planning for lung cancer radiation therapy using the expedited constrained hierarchical optimization (ECHO) system.Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology · 2026Article
- Mechanistic insights into the mitigating role of dapagliflozin against radiation-triggered myocardial apoptosis: gating to AMPK-regulated autophagic machinery.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Article
- Association of Aspirin Use with In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Radiation-Associated Acute Pneumonitis: Insights from the National Inpatient Sample Database.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Cardiovascular Morbidity Following Definitive Chemoradiotherapy for Lung Cancer in an Appalachian Population.Cancers · 2026Article
- Myocardial infarction and lung cancer research from 1995 to 2026: a WoSCC- and PubMed-based bibliometric analysis.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Article
- No detectable early subclinical cardiotoxicity within 12 weeks of thoracic radiotherapy under predominantly low cardiac dose exposure: a prospective cohort study.Cardio-oncology (London, England) · 2026Article
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- Longitudinal computed tomography body composition changes in patients receiving curative radiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer.Physics and imaging in radiation oncology · 2026Article
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- Cardiac substructure dosimetry in thoracic radiotherapy: moving beyond mean heart dose and toward precision cardiac risk mitigation.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2026Review
- A systematic review of artificial intelligence in radiotherapy associated cardiovascular toxicity.Cardio-oncology (London, England) · 2026Review
- Cardiovascular Imaging for the Early Detection of Cardiotoxicity from Emerging Cancer Therapies: Mechanistic Insights Across the Pediatric and Adult Spectrum.Journal of personalized medicine · 2026Review
- Incidence of new-onset atrial fibrillation after thoracic radiotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026Review
- Radiotherapy and Cardiovascular Disease Survival Risk in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Population-Based Study From the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Database.Cancer medicine · 2026Article
- Heart Substructure Radiation Dose and Cardiac Outcomes: Contemporary Evidence and Actionable Opportunities: JACC CardioOncology State-of-the-Art Review.JACC. CardioOncology · 2026Review
- Longitudinal Trends in Myocardial Metabolic Uptake Following Stereotactic Arrhythmia Radioablation Using 2-Deoxy-2-[International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics · 2026Article
- Cardio-oncology research prioritisation in the United Kingdom: national surveys of health care professionals, patients and carers.Cardio-oncology (London, England) · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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Abstract
Radiotherapy is the standard of care treatment for unresectable NSCLC, combined with concurrent chemotherapy and adjuvant immunotherapy. Despite technological advances in radiotherapy planning and delivery, the risk of damage to surrounding thoracic tissues remains high. Cardiac problems, including arrhythmia, heart failure and ischaemic events, occur in 20% of patients with lung cancer who undergo radiotherapy. As survival rates improve incrementally for this cohort, minimising the cardiovascular morbidity of RT is increasingly important. Problematically, the reporting of cardiac endpoints has been poor in thoracic radiotherapy clinical trials, and retrospective studies have been limited by the lack of standardisation of nomenclature and endpoints. How baseline cardiovascular profile and cardiac substructure radiation dose distribution impact the risk of cardiotoxicity is incompletely understood. As Thoracic Oncology departments seek to expand the indications for radiotherapy, and as the patient cohort becomes older and more comorbid, there is a pressing need for cardiotoxicity to be comprehensively characterised with sophisticated oncology, physics and cardio-oncology evaluations. This review synthesises the evidence base for cardiotoxicity in conventional radiotherapy, focusing on lung cancer, including current data, unmet clinical needs, and future scientific directions.
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