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StephN
Many many compounds radiosensitize in different forms of cancer. For head and neck cancers even cox2 inhibitors radiosensitize. I am off in Denmark without a lot of time to do research, but remind me and I will try to scrounge around a partial list for you. The radiation oncologists tend to be very practical people and feel that what they do already has been shown to work (and the are not even REALLY sure why!) so it is hard to get them to do a study (it would be hard to interpret the results anyway) as to what works better...hence the very slow uptake of new techniques such as APBI. I can't move from this to other screen without losing my post, so I will post a couple of articles from yesterday's search showing how little is known about radiation therapy for breast cancer...and how they are only now starting to entertain thoughts of doing studies to remedy that and try to answer very basic questions.
Hope this helps rather than makes people uncomfortable...
Lani
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