Basic Clinical Radiobiology

1.Introduction: the significance of radiobiology and radiotherapy for cancer treatment 2. Irradiation-induced damage and the DNA damage response 3. Cell death after irradiation: how, when and why cells die 4. Quantitating cell kill and cell survival 5. Models of radiation response 5. Dose-response relationships in radiotherapy 6. LET and RBE 7. Tumour growth and response to radiation 8. Fractionation: the L-Q approach 9. The L-Q approach in clinical practice 10. Modified fractionation 11. Time factors in normal-tissue response to radiation 12. The dose-rate effect 13. Pathogenesis of normal-tissue side-effects 14. The volume effect in radiotherapy 15. The oxygen effect and fractionated radiotherapy 16. The…