Figures and Tables
From the following article:
Repopulation of cancer cells during therapy: an important cause of treatment failure
John J. Kim & Ian F. Tannock
Nature Reviews Cancer 5, 516-525 (July 2005)
doi:10.1038/nrc1650
Figure 1
Survival curves and processes that influence response to radiotherapy.
Figure 2
The relationship between total dose of radiation to control 50% of oropharyngeal cancers and duration of fractionated radiotherapy.
Figure 3
Models for repopulation.
Figure 4
Model curves that illustrate the potential effects of repopulation on the total number of cells present in a tumour at different times during chemotherapy, relative to the start of treatment.
Table 1
Repopulation during fractionated radiotherapy for experimental tumours
Table 2
Evidence for accelerated repopulation in tumours following treatment with chemotherapy
Table 3
An example of optimal scheduling of cytotoxic and cytostatic therapy*
