title: Failla memorial lecture. Contrarian concepts in the progress of radiotherapy.
abstract: Radiobiology concepts relevant to radiotherapy have undergone continued revision, suggesting that a continuing skeptical if not completely contrarian view of current concepts is also warranted. Some such revisions are revisited, and some present applications of radiobiology to radiotherapy are discussed before they, too, require revision.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, UCLA Medical Center 90024-1714.
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Withers
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D011853:Radiobiology / Q000639:trends; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000639:trends*