Repair capacity and kinetics for human mucosa and epithelial tumors in the head and neck: Clinical data on the effect of changing the time interval between multiple fractions per day in radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 89-101

  Bentzen, Søren M ^a,b   Ruifrok, Arnout C C ^a   Thames, Howard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b DANISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Human mucosa; Kinetics; Multiple fractions; Repair capacity; Tumors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MUCOSA; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY REPAIR; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 0030049684     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8140(95)01689-9     Document Type: Article

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