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[Role of endothelium in radiation-induced normal tissue damages].
Annales de cardiologie et d'angeiologie - 1 Jun 2008
Milliat F, François A, Tamarat R, Benderitter M
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More than half of cancers are treated with radiation therapy alone or in combination with surgery and/or chemotherapy. The goal of radiation therapy is to deliver enough ionising radiation to destroy cancer cells, without exceeding the level that the surrounding healthy cells can tolerate. Unfortunately, radiation-induced normal tissue injury is still a dose limiting factor in the treatment of cancer with...
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