[How is it considered to advance radiotherapy from biological and clinical standpoint of view?].
The main reasons of recent advances of radiotherapy are considered to be due to improvements of therapeutic techniques and therapy machines, but the contributions of radiobiology are thought to be no so great. In the present paper, the history of radiotherapy is reviewed, and several problems to be solved in order to make more effective radiotherapy taken in radiobiological factors was discussed.
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Dept. of Radiology, Tohoku Univ. School of Med.
D002455:Cell Division; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000528:radiation effects; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage