A Study on Low-dose Radiation Therapy

Cartoon diagram of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) (rainbow colored, N-terminus = blue, C-terminus = red) complexed its ligand epidermal growth factor (magenta) based on the PDB: 1NQL​ crystallographic coordinates.

Many people with brain tumors will have an operation to remove as much tumor as possible.  The goal is to remove what can be safely removed. The next steps may be chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy.  In order to explore how radiation may assist in targeting and killing brain tumor cells,…

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