Relationships between acute reactions to radiotherapy in head and neck cancer patients and parameters of radiation-induced DNA damage and repair in their lymphocytes

International Journal of Radiation Biology

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 635-642

  Rzeszowska Wolny, J ^a,b   Palyvoda, O ^a   Polanska, J ^b   Wygoda, A ^a   Hancock, R ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^b SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Lymphocytes; Prediction of healthy tissue reaction; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RATING SCALE;

COMET ASSAY; DNA BREAKS, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 48249157356     PISSN: 09553002     EISSN: 13623095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09553000802087041     Document Type: Article

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