Identification of highly radiosensitive patients may lead to side effect-free radiotherapy

Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 06:07 in Health & Medicine

Berlin, Germany: An international group of scientists has taken the first step on the road to targeting radiotherapy dosage to individual patients by means of their genetic characteristics, a radiation oncologist told Europe's largest cancer congress, ECCO 15 -- ESMO 34 [1], in Berlin today (Thursday September 24).

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