By VIcroR PERMAN, EUGENE P. CRONKITE, VIcroR P. Bonn AND D u K. SORENSEN T HE SUCCESSFUL treatment of the hemopoietic phase of the acute irradiation syndrome m dogs following doses of radiation that are in the range of LD,00130 dose has been reported by Sorensen et a!.’ and Bagadasarov et al.2 The present study is concerned with the ability of hemopoietic tissue to regenerate spontaneously foll...

background: considering the ease of administration of capecitabne instead of infusional 5fu for concurrent  radiochemotherapy (rct) of rectal cancer, the use of capecitabine has increased significantly in our radiation oncology department in the past years. thus we decided to compare the safety and survival with these 2 drugs by a retrospective review. methods: files of all patients receiving r...

The composition of the gut microbiota represents an early indicator chronic post-radiation outcomes in elderly bone and gastrointestinal homeostasis. Fecal analyses revealed that relative abundances Bacteroides massiliensis, Muribaculum sp., or Prevotella denticola were different between conventional (CM) anti-inflammatory restricted (RM). murine RM was found conditional on mucosa-associated dy...

The feasibility of partial-body shielding is discussed from two points of viev. The first assumes that limited clinical and experimental data are extrapolable to the operational situations of interest and that it is possible to selectively protect against the neural, hemapoietic, and gastrointestinal components of the acute radiation syndrome. Under this assumption, it would appear that (a) neu...