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Cancer stem cells and radiotherapy
1 Jan 2009
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PURPOSE: The present work summarises the history and current status of research into the importance of cancer stem cells for radiobiological research and for clinical radiation oncology. An effort is made to differentiate clonogenicity from stemness of cancer cells. CONCLUSION: In radiooncology, cancer stem cells have been an important research field for five decades. Quantitative transplantation assays with...
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