Analysis by alkaline comet assay of cancer patients with severe reactions to radiotherapy: Defective rejoining of radioinduced DNA strand breaks in lymphocytes of breast cancer patients

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 83-90

  Alapetite, Claire ^a   Thirion, Pierre ^a   De La Rochefordière, Anne ^a   Cosset, Jean Marc ^a   Moustacchi, Ethel ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IONIZING RADIATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SICKNESS; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; KINETICS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032822526     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19990924)83:1<83::AID-IJC16>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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