Is the α/β ratio for prostate cancer low?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-3

  D'Souza, Warren D ^a   Thames, Howard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125; ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL CELL; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COBALT THERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG HALF LIFE; EDITORIAL; EMBRYO; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0035450297     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(01)01650-9     Document Type: Editorial

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