Radiation pneumonitis (RP) is a lung disease that appears after thoracic irradiation of different malignancies. Pathophysiology, clinical aspects, outcome, and treatment are reported. Clinical RP is related to different factors, the most important being irradiated lung volume and radiotherapy dose. RP appearing in the treatment of lung cancer, breast cancer, Hodgkin disease, esophageal cancer, head and neck cancer, and in total body irradiation, and also future trends to avoid this complication are discussed.
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