Prospective clinical research of radiation response to high-dose radiotherapy in lung tumours and surrounding normal tissue using functional imaging biomarker assessments

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1038399

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Radiotherapy is a potentially curative treatment for cancers of the lung. To improve outcomes, modern research efforts have focussed on radiotherapy dose escalation. However a major limitation to dose escalation is the associated toxicity to the lung. At present, the mechanisms of lung toxicity are incompletely understood. This research will investigate biomarkers of radiation response in patients receiving high-dose radiotherapy to the lung by using state-of-the-art scanning techniques.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2012

End Date: 01-01-2014

Funding Scheme: Postgraduate Scholarships

Funding Amount: $120,275.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Radiation Therapy

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

lung cancer | lung injury | positron emission tomography (PET) | radiation biology | radiation oncology

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