Article
Genetic susceptibility to late normal tissue injury.
Seminars in radiation oncology - 1 Apr 2007
Travis Elizabeth L
Abstract excerpt
The outcome of all cancer therapies, including radiation, has greatly improved in the last 25 years, resulting in a doubling of the number of long-term cancer survivors. However, a subset of these survivors incurs adverse chronic side effects in unavoidably irradiated normal tissues, persisting long after treatment and compromising the quality of life of these patients. Interpatient variability in normal tissue...
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