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cord-334470-tg8yqzrt	Kirkby, Charles	Is low dose radiation therapy a potential treatment for COVID-19 pneumonia?	2020-04-06		.txt	text/plain	653	41	50	title: Is low dose radiation therapy a potential treatment for COVID-19 pneumonia? We would like to draw the radiotherapy community's attention to the potential for low doses (< 100 cGy) of low LET radiation to treat viral pneumonia as a possible therapy for COVID-19 patients. A review showed low doses from kilovoltage x-rays reduced pneumonia mortality from roughly 30 percent to 10 percent on average.(2) Doses reported were generally in the 20 -few hundred Roentgen range, which given the attenuation through chest wall would likely have resulted in mean lung doses in the tens to < 100 cGy range. Therefore, it stands to reason that an LDRT treatment of 30 to 100 cGy to the lungs of a patient with COVID-19 pneumonia could reduce the inflammation and relieve the life-threatening symptoms.	./cache/cord-334470-tg8yqzrt.txt	./txt/cord-334470-tg8yqzrt.txt