Local Tumor Control following Single Dose Irradiation of Human Melanoma Xenografts: Relationship to Cellular Radiosensitivity and Influence of an Immune Response by the Athymic Mouse

Cancer Research

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 1989, Pages 3163-3167

  Hofstad, Einar K ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOMA; MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMOR IMMUNITY; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; X IRRADIATION;

ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOMA; MICE; MICE, NUDE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 0024316166     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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