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Tumor Hypoxia During Radiotherapy

Authors: George Rajna

Tumour hypoxia, defined as low levels of oxygen partial pressure (pO2), can cause resistance to radiotherapy. [33] “Identifying tissues not only by their structure and morphology, as is done today, but also by their unique molecular signatures can assist in diagnosis and decision-making,” says lead author Alexander Golberg, professor of environment and earth sciences at Tel Aviv University. [32] A particularly aggressive, metastasizing form of cancer, HER2-positive breast cancer, may be treated with nanoscopic particles "imprinted" with specific binding sites for the receptor molecule HER2. [31]

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