In recent years, increasing number of cancer patients are treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) or stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), which deliver hypofractionated irradia- tion with high-dose per fraction . It is highly likely that the radiobiological principles such as 4 Rs (Reoxygenation, Repair, Redistribution, Repopu- lation) for the conventional fractionated radiother- apy with small-dose per fractions do not apply for SRS and SBRT. Reoxygenation: When tumors are exposed to high-dose per fraction, e.g. [10 Gy, significant vascular damage will occur. Conse- quently, intratumor environment becomes hypoxic and acidic, which not only will prevent reoxygen- ation of hypoxic cells but also will cause indirect cell death. Repair: delivery of SRS or SBRT lasts considerable lengths of time, which may allow repair of sub-lethal radiation damage during the irradiation exposure. Redistribution: high-dose irradiation prevents cell cycle progression and cells undergo interphase death in the cell cycle phases where they are irradiated. Repopulation: Since SRS or SBRT treatment is completed within 1-2 weeks, repopulation of tumor cells during the course of treatment may be negligible. The linear- quadratic (LQ) model , which is used to calculate isoeffect doses for different hyperfractionated irradiation schemes, may be applied for hypofrac- tionated SRS or SBRT, provided that indirect cell death due to vascular damage is negligible.
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Song, C. W., Park, H., Griffin, R. J., & Levitt, S. H. (2011). Radiobiology of Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (pp. 51–61). https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2011_264
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