BCRB 2018

19/09/2018

Local tumor control

Basic clinical radiobiology

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Ex-vivo assays

• Clonogenic assays (plating assays) • Tumors are excised, reduced to single cells and grown in a test environment • Provide a direct measure of the surviving fraction of clonogenic cells. • Limitation: relationship between clonogens (in test environment) and stem cells (in situ) is uncertain.

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