Radiation-induced micronucleus frequency in peripheral blood lymphocytes is correlated with normal tissue damage in patients with cervical carcinoma undergoing radiotherapy

Radiation Research

Volumn 159, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 713-721

  Widel, Maria ^a,b   Jedrus, Sylwia ^a   Lukaszczyk, Beata ^a   Raczek Zwierzycka, Katarzyna ^a   Swierniak, Andrzej ^a  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICRONUCLEUS; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TISSUE INJURY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION TOLERANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0038657782     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/0033-7587(2003)159[0713:RMFIPB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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