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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Jaap Haveman
PROVIDER: E-TABM-90 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Svensson J Peter JP Stalpers Lukas J A LJ Esveldt-van Lange Rebecca E E RE Franken Nicolaas A P NA Haveman Jaap J Klein Binie B Turesson Ingela I Vrieling Harry H Giphart-Gassler Micheline M
PLoS medicine 20061001 10
<h4>Background</h4>Radiation is an effective anti-cancer therapy but leads to severe late radiation toxicity in 5%-10% of patients. Assuming that genetic susceptibility impacts this risk, we hypothesized that the cellular response of normal tissue to X-rays could discriminate patients with and without late radiation toxicity.<h4>Methods and findings</h4>Prostate carcinoma patients without evidence of cancer 2 y after curative radiotherapy were recruited in the study. Blood samples of 21 patients ...[more]