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Dual radiobiological interpretations of retrospective clinical data: the time factor
H D Thames1, W D'Souza, D A Kuban
1Department of Biomathematics, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA. htd@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu
Abstract:
Dual interpretations are different radiobiological mechanisms that explain theoretically the same observed results. Radiobiological interpretations of the time factor are most frequently based on changes in total dose that produce a given effect. If this dose is increased by different mechanisms (e.g. increasing overall time and decreasing dose per fraction) at the same time, proposals for altered fractionation schemes based on the choice of one or the other mechanism, in principle, can lead to erroneous predictions of outcome. This is especially the case when the analyses are based on retrospective clinical data, where the influence of patient selection is unknown. Examples of dual interpretations taken from the literature on head and neck, melanoma and prostate cancer are discussed.
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