Department of Pharmacology, University of Arizona Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona 85724 fD. H. R.]; Division of Radiobiology and Biophysics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, CharlottesvÃ1⁄4le,Virginia 22901 ¡W.B. L., C. J. K., H, A. H.]; Baltimore Cancer Research Center, National Cancer Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21211 [L. J. M., S. M. L.J; and Biochemistry Cancer Research, Howar...

The 21st L H Gray Conference, organised by the L H Gray Trust with the Society for Radiological Protection, brought together international experts in radiobiology, epidemiology and risk assessment, and scientists involved in diagnostic and therapeutic radiation exposure. The meeting — held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 4–6 June 2008 — aimed to raise awareness, educate and share knowledge of import...

The question of whether very small doses of ionizing radiation really exert stochastic effects (i.e. induce harmful genetic effects, including cancer in a probablistic manner) has not been unequivocally settled. The much relied upon linear, no-threshold (LNT) hypothesis does not have convincing experimental evidence. As there are practical difficulties in generating data on genetic effects at v...

The use of particle accelerators in radiotherapy has significantly changed the therapeutic outcomes for many types solid tumours. In particular, protons are well known sparing normal tissues and increasing overall index. Recent studies show that tissue can be further enhanced through proton delivery at 100 Gy/s above, so-called FLASH regime. This generated very significant interest assessing bi...

The application of fast neutrons, negative pions or heavy ions will only provide an advantage for the radiotherapy of cancer if, in comparison with conventional radiations, e.g., X-rays, gamma rays and electrons, better depth-dose and collimation characteristics or specific radiobiological dose response relationships result in greater local control probabilities for tumours without increased fr...

We may not be able to make you love reading, but physical and chemical mechanisms in molecular radiation biology will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. I...

Radiation oncology is a relatively young specialty that has evolved as a subspecialized discipline over the past 30 years. Although the use of radiation for therapeutic purposes has been studied for the last century, it has only been relatively recently that the formal specialty has been recognized. Originally, training in the use of radiation for therapeutic purposes was included as part of di...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is the only cancer for which deaths are predicted to increase in 2014 and beyond. Combined radiochemotherapy protocols using gemcitabine and hypofractionated X-rays are ongoing in several clinical trials. Recent results indicate that charged particle therapy substantially increases local control of resectable and unresectable pancreas cancer, as predicted from p...