title: Models of cell population in tumours and possibility of their application to optimization of radiotherapy.
abstract: Two models of cell population in tumours are analyzed and used to explain some experiments on the influence of radiation on tumours. There is a proposal to remove disagreements between these models and experiments by the assumption that cells under the influence of a destructive factor may reduce their degree of differentiation.
authors.affiliation: Medical Academy, Department of Physics and Biophysics, Debinki, Poland.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Swirydowicz
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016923:Cell Death / Q000528:radiation effects; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D014411:Neoplastic Stem Cells / Q000473:pathology / Q000528:radiation effects