PART II
Chapter 3
Modern Technologies in Radiotherapy
Many approaches have been employed by the medical/pharmaceutical community to enhance the therapeutic effect of radiotherapy and/or to protect normal tissues or ameliorate tissue injury induced by radiotherapy. In general, there are four major approaches: (1) improvements/modifications on technical aspects of radiotherapy, (2) use of radiosensitizers to enhance the killing of radio-resistant cancer cells, (3) use of radioprotective agents to protect normal tissues and/or reduce the side effects, and (4) use of radiomitigators to speed up the recovery of normal tissues from injury induced by radiotherapy.
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