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1Department of Radiation Oncology, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Alexander Stone Building, Garscube Estate, Switchback Road, Bearsden, Glasgow G61 1BD, Scotland, UK. rpark001@udcf.gla.ac.uk
Biologist (London, England)
|August 9, 2002
Abstract:
Along with chemotherapy and surgery, radiotherapy has enabled a level of success in the treatment and palliative care of cancer patients. However, as we enter the 21st century under the cloud that one in three of us will be diagnosed with cancer within our lifetimes, it is evident that much more needs to be achieved if this disease is to be better controlled and treated.