Relationship between residual radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks in cultured fibroblasts and late radiation reactions: A comparison of training and validation cohorts of breast cancer patients

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 321-326

  Dickson, Jeanette ^a   Magee, Brian ^a   Stewart, Alan ^a   West, Catharine M L ^a  

^a CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultured fibroblasts; Late radiation reactions; Residual radiation induced DNA double strand breaks

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RADIATION SICKNESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN BIOPSY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELLS, CULTURED; COHORT STUDIES; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN;

EID: 0036223482     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(01)00432-7     Document Type: Article

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