Low dose radiation therapy for COVID-19 pneumonia: is there any supportive evidence?

Sisko Salomaa^{1

2}, Elisabeth Cardis^{3

4

5}, Simon D Bouffler⁶, Michael J Atkinson⁷, Nobuyuki Hamada⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
² STUK-Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Helsinki, Finland.
³ Campus Mar, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology & Public Health (CIBERESP), Carlos III Institute of Health, C/Sinesio Delgado, Madrid, Spain.
⁶ Public Health England Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Oxon, UK.
⁷ Institute of Radiation Biology, Helmholtz-Center Munich, National Research Centre for Health and Environment, Neuherberg, Germany.
⁸ Radiation Safety Research Center, Nuclear Technology Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Tokyo, Japan.

Sisko Salomaa et al. Int J Radiat Biol. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;96(10):1224-1227.

doi: 10.1080/09553002.2020.1762020. Epub 2020 May 6.

Sisko Salomaa^{1

2}, Elisabeth Cardis^{3

4

5}, Simon D Bouffler⁶, Michael J Atkinson⁷, Nobuyuki Hamada⁸

¹ Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
² STUK-Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Helsinki, Finland.
³ Campus Mar, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology & Public Health (CIBERESP), Carlos III Institute of Health, C/Sinesio Delgado, Madrid, Spain.
⁶ Public Health England Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Oxon, UK.
⁷ Institute of Radiation Biology, Helmholtz-Center Munich, National Research Centre for Health and Environment, Neuherberg, Germany.
⁸ Radiation Safety Research Center, Nuclear Technology Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Tokyo, Japan.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; circulatory disease; low dose radiation therapy; lung cancer; pneumonia.

Comment in

Re: Low-dose radiation therapy for COVID-19 pneumonia: is there any supportive evidence?
Bevelacqua JJ, Mortazavi SAR, Mortazavi SMJ. Bevelacqua JJ, et al. Int J Radiat Biol. 2020 Oct;96(10):1236-1237. doi: 10.1080/09553002.2020.1797213. Epub 2020 Jul 28. Int J Radiat Biol. 2020. PMID: 32673140 No abstract available.