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Radiation-Sensitizing Agents

Known as: Agents, Radiation-Sensitizing, Radiation Sensitizing Drugs, Radiosensitizing Drugs 
Drugs used to potentiate the effectiveness of radiation therapy in destroying unwanted cells.
National Institutes of Health

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Review
2015
Review
2015
Silver nanoparticles: synthesis, properties, and therapeutic applications.
Review
2013
Review
2013
Dye Sensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy
Photofrin® was first approved in the 1990s as a sensitizer for use in treating cancer via photodynamic therapy (PDT). Since then… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
The Therapeutic Potential of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase Inhibitors
Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) is a member of the PARP enzyme family consisting of PARP-1 and several recently identified… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Inhibition of ATM and ATR kinase activities by the radiosensitizing agent, caffeine.
Caffeine exposure sensitizes tumor cells to ionizing radiation and other genotoxic agents. The radiosensitizing effects of… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Metal complexes as photo- and radiosensitizers.
Review
1998
Review
1998
Bladder cancer.
  • H. Ozen
  • Current Opinion in Oncology
  • 1998
  • Corpus ID: 821024
Identification of genetic alterations in bladder cancer is proceeding very rapidly. The most common genetic alteration identified… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Inhibition of phosphoinositide 3-kinase related kinases by the radiosensitizing agent wortmannin.
Members of the phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase related kinase (PIKK) family function in both cell cycle progression and DNA damage… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Recursive partitioning analysis of prognostic factors in three Radiation Therapy Oncology Group malignant glioma trials.
BACKGROUND Despite notable technical advances in therapy for malignant gliomas during the past decade, improved patient survival… 
Review
1984
Review
1984
The relevance of tumour pH to the treatment of malignant disease.
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Classification of antineoplastic agents by their selective toxicities toward oxygenated and hypoxic tumor cells.
The cytotoxicities of a number of antineoplastic agents to oxygenated and hypoxic EMT6 mouse mammary tumor cells in culture were… 
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