Identification Of Highly Radiosensitive Patients May Lead To Side Effect-free Radiotherapy

Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 23:28 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have taken the first step on the road to targeting radiotherapy dosage to individual patients by means of their genetic characteristics. This work might provide the basis for personalized radiotherapy in which, with a simple blood test, doctors could select the optimal radiation dose for a particular patient.

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