The radiation tolerance of whole liver is
Liver injury tends to be more common in those patients with radiation doses greater than 30 Gy or when the whole-liver is irradiated. It is usually seen as a result of therapy to adjacent organs, such as pancreatic carcinoma, gallbladder carcinoma, retroperitoneal lymphoma, pleural mesothelioma, distal esophageal and other lower thoracic malignancies.