Radiation Pneumonitis

 Cancer is bad … treatment side effects can be worse

The  most common types of cancers are cancers of the chest, including lung and breast cancer. 

One of the most common treatments is radiation therapy. 

The most common dose limiting side effect of radiation therapy to the thorax is radiation pneumonitis, or symptomatic burning of the lungs. 

There exists a noninvasive painless fast and easy method that's been demonstrated in clinical trials to reliably predict individual radiation pneumonitis. This method uses breath samples to perform the analysis. No cutting, no biopsies, no extra radiation.

Radiation pneumonitis generally takes months to clinically manifest. During those months, inflammation and scar tissue formation, some of which is irreversible, occur. 

Early identification of people who are suseptible should allow early treatment, breaking the cycle of inflammation and fibrosis that would otherwise cause clinically significant lung dysfunction. 

Early identification of people who are not susceptible to radiation pneumonitis would allow avoidance of radiation pneumonitis treatments (which have their own side effects) for people who will not get the condition in the first place. In either case, treatment can be individually optimised. 

We are seeking interested people, including patients, radiation oncologists, pulmonologist, and others, to discuss getting fast, easy, noninvasive, accurate testing for radiation pneumonitis into clinical use, and to improve patient outcomes!