• Some patients receive total body irradiation (TBI) in addition to chemotherapy. (ucsfhealth.org)
  • The transplant of blood stem cells or bone marrow will be infused one to three days after the last chemotherapy or radiation dose. (ucsfhealth.org)
  • The body feels the effects of the chemotherapy or radiation about a week after a BMT. (ucsfhealth.org)
  • The patient, a 62-year old man who was diagnosed with high-grade large cell lymphoma in 1999, received multidrug (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisolone) chemotherapy, central nervous system prophylaxis with cytarabine, and high-dose methotrexate. (cdc.gov)
  • Having a transplant means that you will be given high dose chemotherapy and/or total body irradiation. (canteen.org.au)
  • Highly emetogenic chemotherapy: 24mg once 30 mins before start of single-day chemotherapy (multi-day, single-dose not studied). (empr.com)
  • Moderately emetogenic chemotherapy: 8mg every 8hrs for 2 doses beginning 30 mins before chemotherapy, then 8mg every 12hrs for 1-2 days after chemotherapy completed. (empr.com)
  • Multiple conditioning regimens were used, including total body irradiation-based or chemotherapy-based options. (ascopost.com)
  • Chemotherapy and radiotherapy including the ovaries (pelvic or total body irradiation) are associated with POI. (menopause.org.au)
  • Older age, greater cumulative dose, chemotherapy regimens containing cyclophosphamide and combined radiotherapy and chemotherapy are associated with greater risk 3 (see AMS Information Sheet Early menopause due to chemotherapy and radiotherapy ). (menopause.org.au)
  • Also known as the conditioning regimen, the preparatory stage of cord blood transplants involves high doses of chemotherapy and in some cases radiation treatment, which is used to treat the whole body in a process known as total body irradiation (TBI). (pregnancy-info.net)
  • SEATTLE--French researchers have recently concluded a study of multiple myeloma in which high-dose chemotherapy combined with autologous bone marrow transplantation (HDC/ABMT) resulted in a significant improvement in response rate and overall survival, compared with conventional chemotherapy. (cancernetwork.com)
  • To improve these results, a high-dose chemotherapy regimen usingmelphalan (Alkeran) was developed for the treatment of aggressivemultiple myeloma, and has been anecdotally reported to inducean improved response, including some complete remissions, in patientsrefractory to conventional dosages. (cancernetwork.com)
  • High-dose therapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation after failure of conventional chemotherapy in adults with intermediate-grade or high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. (smw.ch)
  • High-dose sequential chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation in relapsed and refractory aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: results of a multicenter phase II study. (smw.ch)
  • High dose sequential chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation in patients with relapsed/refractory lymphoma. (smw.ch)
  • High-dose chemotherapy with autologous bone marrow transplantation: 11 years' experience in Zurich. (smw.ch)
  • Active, relapsed, or refractory AML was defined for the sake of the trial as primary induction failure after ≥ 2 cycles of therapy including chemotherapy or ≥ 2 cycles of venetoclax (Venclexta) with a hypomethylating agent or low-dose cytarabine, first early relapse after first CR of less than 6 months, relapse refractory to salvage chemotherapy regimen, or second or subsequent relapse. (onclive.com)
  • A single 24-mg dose administered 30 minutes before the start of single-day highly emetogenic chemotherapy, including cisplatin greater than or equal to 50 mg/m 2 . (medlibrary.org)
  • 8 mg administered 30 minutes before the start of chemotherapy, with a subsequent 8-mg dose 8 hours after the first dose. (medlibrary.org)
  • The study demonstrates that despite improvements in supportive care, myeloablative conditioning using higher doses of TBI (with cyclophosphamide) leads to worse NRM and offers no survival benefit over SD, despite reducing disease relapse. (houstonmethodist.org)
  • 4 At the other end of the spectrum, randomized comparisons suggested that less toxic but still intensive conditioning with 800 cGy of fractionated TBI combined with fludarabine did not increase the rate of disease recurrence at the same time as significantly reducing extramedullary toxicity compared to 1200 cGy TBI with high-dose cyclophosphamide. (haematologica.org)
  • Improvements in radiotherapy techniques and supportive care may translate to better outcomes with higher irradiation doses in the modern era. (houstonmethodist.org)
  • nausea and vomiting associated with radiotherapy in patients receiving either total body irradiation, single high-dose fraction to the abdomen, or daily fractions to the abdomen. (nih.gov)
  • radiotherapy in patients receiving either total body irradiation, single high-dose fraction to the abdomen, or daily fractions to the abdomen. (nih.gov)
  • Radiotherapy uses high energy x-rays, gamma rays or electrons to kill cancer cells in a specific part of the body. (canteen.org.au)
  • Radiotherapy only affects the cells and tissues within a specific area (unlike chemo, which affects the whole body). (canteen.org.au)
  • Normal, healthy cells are also better able to resist the radiation, which is why your body may recover from the effects of radiotherapy faster. (canteen.org.au)
  • Total body irradiation: 8mg 1-2hrs before each fraction of radiotherapy administered each day. (empr.com)
  • Single high-dose fraction radiotherapy to abdomen: 8mg 1-2hrs before radiotherapy, then 8mg every 8hrs after 1st dose for 1-2 days after radiation completed. (empr.com)
  • Residents are involved with simulations and special procedures, including but not limited to: 3D-conformal radiotherapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), computed tomography (CT) and conventional simulation, stereotactic radiosurgery/Gamma-Knife radiosurgery, intraoperative brachytherapy, high dose rate remote afterloading brachytherapy, total body irradiation (TBI), total skin electron beam radiotherapy and interstitial/intracavitary treatment throughout their training. (yale.edu)
  • Chicago, IL - November 10, 2009 - Clinicians using RapidArc® radiotherapy technology for fast, precise, non-invasive cancer treatments have found that they are able to substantially reduce scatter dose to surrounding healthy tissues, according to several presentations and posters presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) in Chicago. (varian.com)
  • With RapidArc, doctors were able to quickly administer image-guided radiotherapy or radiosurgery treatments using fewer monitor units, which translates to less total body irradiation during treatment. (varian.com)
  • Besides the 3-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D CRT), they regularly perform all the most modern radiotherapy techniques: intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT), and stereotactic techniques like stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT). (onko-i.si)
  • 8 mg administered 1 to 2 hours before radiotherapy, with subsequent 8-mg doses every 8 hours after the first dose for 1 to 2 days after completion of radiotherapy. (medlibrary.org)
  • Since approximately 30% of leukemia patients relapse after allogeneic BMT using total body irradiation (TBI)-based preparative regimens, treatment intensity may be suboptimal. (nature.com)
  • All patients received high-dose etoposide (60 mg/kg) and allogeneic stem cell transplantation following the TBI. (nature.com)
  • OBJECTIVES: I. Determine whether mixed or full donor chimerism can be safely established in older patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) treated with nonmyeloablative conditioning comprised of low dose total body irradiation, followed by allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, followed by unrelated donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI). (knowcancer.com)
  • OUTLINE: Conditioning: Patients undergo low dose total body irradiation followed by infusion of allogeneic peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) on day 0. (knowcancer.com)
  • 5 Along these lines, Monaca and co-workers, 6 again from Seattle, have convincingly demonstrated in this issue of Haematologica that subtle dose increases of unfractionated TBI can significantly decrease the failure rate after allogeneic HCT. (haematologica.org)
  • 9 While this trial tested a dose of 60 mg/kg ATG (day -3 to -1), a similar finding was made after allogeneic HCT from matched siblings applying 30 mg/kg again within intensive conditioning. (haematologica.org)
  • Treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma with allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation after nonmyeloablative conditioning with fludarabine/total body irradiation is feasible and may induce tumor regression or stabilization in some patients. (aacrjournals.org)
  • 2 1 The most frequently used protocol, spear-headed by investigators from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, was based on a single dose of 200 cGy of total-body irradiation (TBI) and a few doses of fludarabine followed by pharmacological immunosuppression. (haematologica.org)
  • Eight patients received conditioning with fludarabine and low-dose total body irradiation followed by hematopoietic cell transplantation from an HLA-matched sibling donor. (aacrjournals.org)
  • After, patients remain on radiation isolation for several days before receiving fludarabine conditioning therapy (30 mg/m 2 /day for 3 days) and finally low-dose total body irradiation (200 cGy) prior to HCT. (onclive.com)
  • Purpose: We have developed a megavoltage CT (MVCT) based dose reconstruction strategy for total body irradiation (TBI) with Helical TomoTherapy (HT, TomoTherapy, Inc, Madison, WI) using a deformable registration model to retrospectively account for interfraction changes in the region of interest (ROI). (elsevierpure.com)
  • As the therapy is used, each leukemia subtype had its peculiarities regarding the treatment, especially the introduction of imatinib for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and prophylactic cranial irradiation for cases of ALL. (sld.cu)
  • Mice deficient in apoE ( Apoe −/− ) can be used to assess the potential role of apoE in the effects of cranial irradiation on hippocampal function. (bioone.org)
  • In case 4D-CT or other robust motion management techniques are not available, the margins for motion management can be estimated to be 10 mm in the cranial and caudal direction and 3 mm in the radial directions, although the vertebral bodies should be entirely excluded. (cancercentrum.se)
  • CTV (total) = CTVT + CTVN + ENI + margins for motion management in case robust motion management techniques are not used (note that the cranial level does not extend above the cricoid cartilage as described above). (cancercentrum.se)
  • Sixteen evaluable patients with advanced hematologic malignancies were treated with twice daily TBI using a high-energy source (18-24 MV). The first patient cohort ( n = 11) received a total dose of 14.4 Gy in nine fractions, and the second cohort ( n = 5) received doses escalated to 15.3 Gy. (nature.com)
  • A total of 2721 patients ages 18 to 60 years with hematologic malignancies receiving HCT from 2001 to 2013 were included. (houstonmethodist.org)
  • Graft failure was seen in 17 patients with an overall cumulative incidence of 17% in patients receiving conditioning with or without total body irradiation: 9 of these 17 patients survive in the long-term. (unicatt.it)
  • PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 40 patients will be accrued for this study within 2 years. (knowcancer.com)
  • This is a multicenter, open-label, Phase 1/2a dose escalation and expansion study of orally administered emavusertib (CA-4948) monotherapy in adult patients with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) or high risk Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS). (rochester.edu)
  • Most interestingly, applying a differential dose escalation strategy, they identified the optimal TBI dose for patients with high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (450 cGy) and patients with low-risk myelodysplastic syndromes and myeloproliferative neoplasms (300 cGy). (haematologica.org)
  • In total, 125 patients were randomly assigned: 62 patients to receive omidubicel-onlv and 63 to the UCB group. (ascopost.com)
  • Fifty-two patients were transplanted with omidubicel-onlv receiving a median CD34+ cell dose of 9.0 × 10 6 cells/kg (range = 2.1-47.6 × 10 6 cells/kg). (ascopost.com)
  • In the 42 patients with reported postthaw cell dose, the median CD34+ cell dose was 0.2 x 106 cells/kg (range = 0.0-0.8 × 10 6 cells/kg). (ascopost.com)
  • But the injectable medication can also be administered as a life-saving measure for patients exposed to dangerous levels of radiation outside of medical treatment: The drug can increase the chances of survivability if given in the critical 48 to 96 hours after initial exposure to a high dose of radiation from a nuclear blast or nuclear fallout. (localnews8.com)
  • Increase survival in patients acutely exposed to myelosuppressive doses of radiation (Hematopoietic Subsyndrome of Acute Radiation Syndrome). (drugs.com)
  • The treatment dose is higher compared to patients who are not undergoing a cord blood transplant. (pregnancy-info.net)
  • At diagnosis, 200 patients under age 65 with intermediate or hightumor mass (stage II/III DS), previously untreated multiple myelomawere randomized to receive either a conventional chemotherapeuticregimen of VMCP/BVAP or high-dose therapy, consisting of melphalan(140 mg/m²) and total body irradiation, supported with unpurgedautologous bone marrow, collected after two cycles of VMCP/BVAP.Maintenance with alpha-interferon was used in both arms. (cancernetwork.com)
  • Forty-three percent of patients in both groups achieved a partialresponse, while 19% of high-dose patients showed minimal responseor continued progression of their disease, compared with 43% inthe conventional group. (cancernetwork.com)
  • Low-dose filgrastim significantly enhances neutrophil recovery following autologous peripheral-blood stem-cell transplantation in patients with lymphoproliferative disorders: evidence for clinical and economic benefit. (smw.ch)
  • Patients in the investigational arm received a dosimetric dose of apamistamab (≤ 20 mCi) approximately 19 days prior to HCT followed by a therapeutic dose of apamistamab, which is individually calculated for each patient based on an upper limit of 24 Gy to the liver. (onclive.com)
  • Pediatric patients would benefit from shortened treatment times, potentially reducing the use of anesthesia," they concluded, adding that the decreased total body irradiation could also potentially reduce the number of late effects, including the risk of secondary malignancies later in life. (varian.com)
  • We provide a complete program of Total Body Irradiation (TBI) for treatment of leukemias, in conjunction with bone marrow transplantation (BMT). (chla.org)
  • The place of high-dose BEAM therapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation in poor-risk Hodgkin's disease. (smw.ch)
  • Dose intensification with autologous bone-marrow transplantation in relapsed and resistant Hodgkin's disease: results of a BNLI randomised trial. (smw.ch)
  • Prior to transplantation, recipient mice need to be myeloablated through whole body irradiation. (mattilsynet.no)
  • When solid tumors are much smaller than the body part in which they are found, radiation can be delivered in a way that conforms to the shape of the tumor, sparing nearby normal tissues. (chla.org)
  • Normal tissues more than 2 centimeters away from the tumor are kept below the dose that would cause injury. (chla.org)
  • Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) is particularly useful for or tumors that are close to normal tissues, especially whose tolerance for radiation is much lower than the dose prescribed to treat the tumor. (chla.org)
  • Using this sophisticated software, the radiation oncologist specifies the dose the child's tumor must receive, as well as the dose that normal tissues cannot exceed, protecting the surrounding area. (chla.org)
  • The nature and severity of side effects depend on many factors, including the size and location of the treated tumor, the treatment technique (for example, the radiation dose), the patient's general medical condition, to name a few. (accuray.com)
  • A midline tumor dose of 6 Gy to UHBI (Upper Hemibody Irradiation) and 8 Gy to LHBI (Lower Hemibody Irradiation) was given. (jortho.org)
  • In the vast majority of cases, RapidArc treatments for prostate cancer result in equal or better tumor coverage with less dose to the bladder and rectum, compared to conventional fixed-field IMRT, according to a research team from the Finsen Centre * in Copenhagen, Denmark. (varian.com)
  • The team observed that tumor coverage is comparable between the two approaches, however, RapidArc reduces treatment duration and the amount of dose going to normal tissues throughout the body. (varian.com)
  • In a review of 6493 children on Pediatric Oncology Group studies, the risk of developing CHF was 5 times higher with cumulative doses higher than 550 mg/m 2 than with lower doses. (medscape.com)
  • We studied the feasibility and toxicity of escalating the doses of fractionated TBI above our previous prescription of 13.5 Gy. (nature.com)
  • The cumulative dose of anthracyclines is known to correlate with presence of toxicity. (medscape.com)
  • We conclude that TBI dose escalation above the previously used 13.5 Gy dose is feasible using a high-energy source and high-dose etoposide. (nature.com)
  • In the SIERRA trial, patient-specific dosimetry was used to generate an individualized therapeutic dose to target marrow and spare non-hematopoietic organs. (onclive.com)
  • Total body irradiation for individuals undergoing a hematopoietic stem cell transplant can cause ovary or testes failure, leading to fertility issues. (lls.org)
  • This includes radiation to the chest or thorax (including mantle, mediastinal and/or axillary treatments fileds), abdomen, spine or total body irradiation (TBI). (medscape.com)
  • Some examples include cancers of the extremities, cranio-spinal treatment for medulloblastoma, whole brain irradiation for leukemia and certain diseases that affect tissues throughout a section of the lungs, abdomen or pelvis. (chla.org)
  • You will be admitted to the hospital on the day your high-dose preparative therapy begins. (ucsfhealth.org)
  • The resultant deformation vector was employed to map the reconstructed dose from each fraction to the same point as the plan dose and then obtain a voxel‐to‐voxel summed dose from all six fractions. (elsevierpure.com)
  • The killing of leukemia cells is proportional to the radiation absorbed dose. (nature.com)
  • Higher-risk groups, including those with T-cell leukemia, are generally treated with moderate cumulative doses (300 mg/m 2 ). (medscape.com)
  • Intermediate doses of unfractionated TBI have been successfully used by other colleagues in diseases such as chronic myeloid leukemia. (haematologica.org)
  • Drugs that travel through the body are more likely to cause nausea and vomiting than treatment that only affects one area of the body, such as radiation therapy. (cancer.org)
  • Some drugs are more likely to cause nausea and vomiting when combined with certain other drugs or when given in high doses. (cancer.ca)
  • Higher doses of radiation are more likely to cause nausea or vomiting. (cancer.ca)
  • The reconstructed dose distribution and its dosimetric parameters are compared with those of the original treatment plan. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Conclusion: A voxel based dose reconstruction strategy taking into account interfraction anatomical changes using MVCTs is a powerful tool for treatment verification of the delivered doses. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Dr. Jerry Cuttler provided a copy of an open letter signed by 23 members or affiliate members of SARI - Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information that describes important information about the use of a specific regimen of whole (or half) body low dose radiation as a treatment in the continuing battle against cancer. (atomicinsights.com)
  • Low cumulative doses (60-150 mg/m 2 ) are used frequently in the treatment of ALL in children, with a low likelihood of subsequent left ventricular dysfunction. (medscape.com)
  • Individual differences - not every person will have the same response to a dose or type of treatment. (cancer.org)
  • [5] Another team from the University of Virginia found that the treatment of peripheral lung lesions using RapidArc is dosimetrically equivalent to fixed-gantry IMRT, however, "low dose spillage trended toward improvement, which may reduce the incidence of symptomatic radiation-induced pneumonitis. (varian.com)
  • Conditioning dose intensity can reduce disease relapse but is offset by toxicities. (houstonmethodist.org)
  • In adults, the incidence of CHF was 3% at a cumulative doxorubicin dose of 400 mg/m 2 , 7% at a cumulative dose of 550 mg/m 2 , and 18% at cumulative doses higher than 700 mg/m 2 . (medscape.com)
  • Readers who doubt that occupational doses were higher than reported in the Cleveland Clinic Study, may well change their minds when they read some hair-raising stories of how radium in hospitals was often handled --- as observed by Cowie and Scheele in their survey (see Chapter 35 ). (ratical.org)
  • GVHD receive the second DLI at a higher dose level on day 65 after the first DLI. (knowcancer.com)
  • In a group of obese school children from South Korea, 30% had antibodies to Adv 36, and infected children had higher body mass index z-scores than uninfected children ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Radiation to the whole body ( total body irradiation ) has a higher chance of causing nausea and vomiting. (cancer.ca)
  • In order to comply with the HEQSF, all institutions are legally required to participate in a national initiative led by regulatory bodies such as the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), the Council on Higher Education (CHE), and the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA). (up.ac.za)
  • While the dose of TPP-IOA in TPP-IOA-nano-complexes was two times lower compared with free TPP-IOA the mitigating effect of TPP-IOA-nanocomplexes was higher than that of TPP-IOA alone. (cdc.gov)
  • although other agencies and researchers sometimes include up to 5 fold higher doses under the same title. (cdc.gov)
  • A priming X-ray exposure to 0.05-0.10 Gy or 0.3-0.5 Gy imparts radioresistance (decrease in bone marrow death rate after high-dose X-rays) in mice 2-2.5 months or 9-17 days postexposure, respectively. (go.jp)
  • Acute leukopenia, with almost total absence of granular leukocytes, leukoblastic groups and lymphoid tissue in the bone marrow, was reported in the case of a 36-year-old chemist who had worked with radium for 14 years (Reitter and Martland 1926). (cdc.gov)
  • 7 The current optimization of the nonmyeloablative protocol developed by the investigators in Seattle clearly shows that differential doses of TBI complement the most frequently applied protocols based on alkylating agents combined with purine analogs. (haematologica.org)
  • For example, if doses of a chemo drug that causes nausea and vomiting are given close together, there's less time for the person to recover from the effects of the last dose before the next one is given. (cancer.org)
  • They use 192-iridium sources and two afterloader machines that enable high dose rate and pulse dose rate radiations. (onko-i.si)
  • The response rate was significantly better in the high-dose arm(22% complete response) than in the conventional arm (5%) (P lessthan .001). (cancernetwork.com)
  • Data from long concluded experiments with moderate and high doses of radiation delivered by internal emitters were significantly re-interpreted because the length of the cell cycle was used as one of the variables in the analysis. (cdc.gov)
  • The irradiation (12Gy) will be performed in two half doses, 3-4 hours apart,to reduce the adverse effects Mice might not feel well for the first 7-14 days and may lose up to 26% of their body weight, which after transplant, will be mostly regained by Day 14-21 post-irradiation. (mattilsynet.no)
  • All mice will be transplanted after irradiation. (mattilsynet.no)
  • But mice pretreated at this priming dose did not show a marked recovery of peripheral blood cell counts after challenging irradiation with mid- or sublethal X-ray doses (a significant, albeit slight, increase in the blood cell counts in the preirradiated group was observed after a lower challenging exposure to 5.0 Gy). (go.jp)
  • Based on newly discovered mechanisms of radiation damage - oxidation of cardiolipin by cytochrome c in mitochondria as a required stage in radiation- induced apoptosis - we designed and synthesized mitochondria-targeted triphenylphosphonium-conjugated imidazole-substituted oleic (TPP-OA) which prevented/mitigated cell death induced by irradiation and protected C57BL6 mice against total body irradiation. (cdc.gov)
  • A number of difficulties also stem from limitations of the classical statistical methodology, which requires that chromosome aberration yields be considered as something "fixed" and thus provides a deterministic estimate of radiation dose and associated confidence limits (because an assignment of a probability to an event is based solely on the observed frequency of occurrence of the event). (bioone.org)
  • Total whole body irradiation is used in the field of blood stem cell function and cancer. (mattilsynet.no)
  • The recovery of blood-forming stem cells, determined as endogenous spleen colonies, was markedly stimulated by priming irradiation. (go.jp)
  • Administer the first dose as soon as possible after suspected or confirmed exposure to myelosuppressive doses of radiation, and a second dose one week after. (drugs.com)
  • A high intensity preparatory regimen also enables the suppression of the immune system, which is important since it prevents the body from attacking the transplanted cells. (pregnancy-info.net)
  • While still in the hospital, the patient's body temperature will be taken four times a day, as fever is an indicator of infection. (pregnancy-info.net)
  • The technique employed for dose measurement was that of film badges. (ratical.org)
  • They also regularly use the total body irradiation (TBI) technique. (onko-i.si)
  • Also worth pointing out is the total body irradiation translation technique using a linear accelerator, designed by local professionals. (onko-i.si)
  • Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) and ICNIRP have nical Commission (1989) determined the maximal daily dose that a worker exposed to UV would be able to receive without expressed in watts per square meter (W.m-2)), acute or long-term effects on the eyes. (who.int)
  • The conventional external beam, with either photons or electrons, can be employed when the diseased tissue is either very superficial or involves an entire region of the body. (chla.org)
  • There is no question that miners exposed to radon experience health risks, but this involves high-dose exposure. (knowledgeofhealth.com)
  • In normal volunteers, single intravenous doses of 0.15 mg/kg of ondansetron had no effect on esophageal motility, gastric motility, lower esophageal sphincter pressure, or small intestinal transit time. (nih.gov)
  • 6 mg/0.6 mL in a single-dose prefilled syringe for manual use only. (drugs.com)
  • 6 mg/0.6 mL in a single-dose prefilled autoinjector. (drugs.com)
  • A single TBI can last between 10 to 20 minutes, and can take place during one day or else be spread out over a period of 7 days, depending on the dose. (pregnancy-info.net)
  • The upper and the lower segment of the body was exposed to a radiation dose of 6 Gy and 8 Gy respectively in single fraction using photon beam megavoltage unit by 6 MV photons of linear accelerator. (jortho.org)
  • Seizures, vomiting, and unconsciousness have been reported for children aged 14 months to 16 years who took up to 2400 mg of alpha-lipoic acid as a single dose. (medlineplus.gov)
  • While researching answers to comments made on the Atomic Insights post titled Healthy doses of radiation, I found a book titled Nuclear Shadowboxing: Legacies and Challenges. (atomicinsights.com)
  • After reading Dr. Jerry Cuttler's paper about the need to restore the basis of radiation regulations to tolerance doses, an Atomic Insights reader provided the link to the above video posted by bionerd23 on YouTube. (atomicinsights.com)