title: Comparative analysis of three functional predictive assays in lymphocytes of patients with breast and gynaecological cancer treated by radiotherapy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  There is a need to develop predictive tests that would allow identifying cancer patients with a high risk of developing side effects to radiotherapy. We compared the predictive value of three functional assays: the G(0) aberration assay, the G(2) aberration assay and the alkaline comet assay in lymphocytes of breast cancer and gynaecological cancer patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Peripheral blood was collected from 35 patients with breast cancer and 34 patients with gynaecological cancer before the onset of therapy. Chromosomal aberrations were scored in lymphocytes irradiated in the G(0) or G(2) phase of the cell cycle. DNA repair kinetics was performed with the alkaline comet assay following irradiation of unstimulated lymphocytes. The results were compared with the severity of early and late side effects to radiotherapy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No correlation was observed between the results of the assays and the severity of side effects. Moreover, each assay identified different patients as radiosensitive.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is no simple correlation between the in vitro sensitivity of lymphocytes and the risk of developing early and late side effects.
authors: Department of Radiobiology and Immunology, Institute of Biology, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland.
authors: Anna
authors: A
authors: Padjas
authors: Piotr
authors: P
authors: Kedzierawski
authors: Agnieszka
authors: A
authors: Florek
authors: Pawel
authors: P
authors: Kukolowicz
authors: Tomasz
authors: T
authors: Kuszewski
authors: Stanislaw
authors: S
authors: Góźdz
authors: Anna
authors: A
authors: Lankoff
authors: Andrzej
authors: A
authors: Wojcik
authors: Halina
authors: H
authors: Lisowska
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