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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
2019
Review
2019
Threatening cancer with nanoparticle aided combination oncotherapy
ABSTRACT Employing combination therapy has become obligatory in cancer cases exhibiting high tumor load, chemoresistant tumor… Expand
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Review
2017
Review
2017
Radiosensitization by gold nanoparticles: Will they ever make it to the clinic?
The utilization of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) as radiosensitizers has shown great promise in pre-clinical research. In the… Expand
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
CANCER CELLS
Both negative (1-5) and positive (6-9) evidence may be found in the literature for the occurrence of tumor-specific cytotoxic… Expand
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
High molar extinction coefficient heteroleptic ruthenium complexes for thin film dye-sensitized solar cells.
Two novel heteroleptic sensitizers, Ru((4,4-dicarboxylic acid-2,2'-bipyridine)(4,4'-bis(p-hexyloxystyryl)-2,2-bipyridine)(NCS)2… Expand
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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… Expand
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Metal complexes as photo- and radiosensitizers.
 
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Review
1998
Review
1998
Bladder cancer.
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  • 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… Expand
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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… Expand
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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… Expand
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Review
1984
Review
1984
The relevance of tumour pH to the treatment of malignant disease.
The wide range of tumour pH values that have been determined in human tumours is shown in Fig. 4. It can be seen that tumour pH… Expand
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