Biological response of cancer cells to radiation treatment

R Baskar, J Dai, N Wenlong, R Yeo… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Cancer is a class of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell growth and has the ability to
spread or metastasize throughout the body. In recent years, remarkable progress has been …

Individual response to ionizing radiation

N Foray, M Bourguignon, N Hamada - Mutation Research/Reviews in …, 2016 - Elsevier
The human response to ionizing radiation (IR) varies among individuals. The first evidence
of the individual response to IR was reported in the beginning of the 20th century …

Molecular contribution of BRCA1 and BRCA2 to genome instability in breast cancer patients: Review of radiosensitivity assays

F Sadeghi, M Asgari, M Matloubi, M Ranjbar… - Biological procedures …, 2020 - Springer
Background DNA repair pathways, cell cycle arrest checkpoints, and cell death induction are
present in cells to process DNA damage and prevent genomic instability caused by various …

Evaluation of different biomarkers to predict individual radiosensitivity in an inter-laboratory comparison–lessons for future studies

B Greve, T Bölling, S Amler, U Rössler, M Gomolka… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Radiotherapy is a powerful cure for several types of solid tumours, but its application is often
limited because of severe side effects in individual patients. With the aim to find biomarkers …

Genetic factors in individual radiation sensitivity

S Hornhardt, U Roessler, W Sauter, A Rosenberger… - DNA repair, 2014 - Elsevier
Cancer risk and radiation sensitivity are often associated with alterations in DNA repair, cell
cycle, or apoptotic pathways. Interindividual variability in mutagen or radiation sensitivity and …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of physical activity on systemic oxidative/DNA status in breast cancer survivors

B Tomasello, GA Malfa, A Strazzanti… - Oncology …, 2017 - spandidos-publications.com
Physical activity offers a paradoxical hormetic effect and a health benefit to cancer survivors;
however, the biochemical mechanisms have not been entirely elucidated. Despite the well …

DNA repair capacity and acute radiotherapy adverse effects in Italian breast cancer patients

S Sterpone, T Cornetta, L Padua, V Mastellone… - Mutation Research …, 2010 - Elsevier
Therapeutic exposure to ionising radiation can induce normal tissue side effects which
consistently differ among individuals suggesting a possible genetic control. One approach to …

Metabolic rewiring in radiation oncology toward improving the therapeutic ratio

MW Van Gisbergen, E Zwilling, LJ Dubois - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
To meet the anabolic demands of the proliferative potential of tumor cells, malignant cells
tend to rewire their metabolic pathways. Although different types of malignant cells share this …

Correlation of sperm DNA damage with protamine deficiency in Iranian subfertile men

HA Nili, H Mozdarani, A Aleyasin - Reproductive biomedicine online, 2009 - Elsevier
To compare the extent of sperm DNA damage with the degree of protamine deficiency in
spermatozoa of normal and subfertile individuals, 30 semen samples from three groups of …

Biological complexities in radiation carcinogenesis and cancer radiotherapy: impact of new biological paradigms

H Mozdarani - Genes, 2012 - mdpi.com
Although radiation carcinogenesis has been shown both experimentally and
epidemiologically, the use of ionizing radiation is also one of the major modalities in cancer …