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Spinal Cord Toxicity

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Radiation myelopathy is a feared and generally avoidable complication of thoracic irradiation. A better understanding of the radiation response of the spinal cord and advances in radiation therapy delivery techniques mean that this complication should be preventable in nearly all treatment situations. A better understanding of the pathogenesis of the injury has lead to the protection of the spinal cord from radiation in experimental studies and to the possible treatment of radiation myelopathy.

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Schultheiss, T.E. (2011). Spinal Cord Toxicity. In: Jeremic, B. (eds) Advances in Radiation Oncology in Lung Cancer. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2011_274

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