EUROPEAN RADIATION RESEARCH 2012

Session

Keynote Lecture 3

18 Oct 2012, 09:00

Vietri sul Mare

251. The pathology and the pathogenesis of late radiation-induced heart diseases after low and high radiation doses

Klaus-Rüdiger Trott (University College London Cancer Institute and Università degli Studi di Pavia)

18/10/2012, 09:00

Non-Cancer Effects

oral (invited speaker)

Contrary to historical concepts of the radioresistance of organs with slow cell turnover, the heart is one of the most radiosensitive organs in the human body. The risk of death from radiation-induced heart diseases is significantly increased after high radiation doses (>40 Gy in Hodgkin’s disease), after intermediate doses (<10 Gy mean heart dose in breast cancer) and after low doses (<1 Gy...