The immunological consequences of radiation‐induced DNA damage

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Historically, our understanding of the cytotoxicity of radiation has centred on tumour cell-autonomous mechanisms of cell death. Here, tumour cell death occurs when a threshold number of radiation-induced non-reparable double-stranded DNA breaks is exceeded. However, in recent years, the importance of immune mechanisms of cell death has been increasingly recognised, as well as the impact of radiotherapy on...

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