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01-09-2021 | Pneumonia | Review – Clinical Oncology
Effectiveness of low-dose radiation therapy to improve mortality of COVID-19
Published in: Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology | Issue 9/2021
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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.