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The toxicity of radiation to living tissues was discovered soon after the discovery of radioactivity itself and this toxicity is the basis for cancer therapy with radiation. Although this mode of therapy is often effective, its success is far from assured. One major difficulty in the implementation of radiotherapy is that normal tissues are also sensitive to killing by radiation so that treatment is often limited by the tolerance of normal tissues for radiation. Thus methods that sensitize tumor cells while sparing normal tissues could potentially lead to greater success with radiation as a therapy. Oncogenes are frequently altered in tumors, but are not in normal tissue making them potential targets for altering radiosensitivity and apoptosis in tumors.
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Muschel, R., Soto, D., McKenna, W. et al. Radiosensitization and apoptosis. Oncogene 17, 3359–3363 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1202580
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