Oxygen enhancement ratios of cancer cells after exposure to intensity modulated x-ray fields: DNA damage and cell survival
Hypoxic cancer cells within solid tumours show radio-resistance, leading to malignant progression in fractionated radiotherapy. When prescribing dose to tumours under heterogeneous oxygen pressure with intensity-modulated radiation fields, intercellular signalling could have an impact on radiosensit...
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Published in | Physics in medicine & biology Vol. 66; no. 7; pp. 75014 - 75024 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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England
IOP Publishing
07.04.2021
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Summary: | Hypoxic cancer cells within solid tumours show radio-resistance, leading to malignant progression in fractionated radiotherapy. When prescribing dose to tumours under heterogeneous oxygen pressure with intensity-modulated radiation fields, intercellular signalling could have an impact on radiosensitivity between in-field and out-of-field cells. However, the impact of hypoxia on radio-sensitivity under modulated radiation intensity remains to be fully clarified. Here, we investigate the impact of hypoxia on in-field and out-of-field radio-sensitivities using two types of cancer cells, DU145 and H1299. Using a nBIONIX hypoxic culture kit and a shielding technique to irradiate 50% of a cell culture flask, oxygen enhancement ratios (OERs) for double-strand breaks (DSB) and cell death endpoints were determined. These in vitro measurements indicate that hypoxia impacts out-of-field cells, although the hypoxic impacts on out-of-field cells for cell survival were dose-dependent and smaller compared to those for in-field and uniformly irradiated cells. These decreased radio-sensitivities of out-of-field cells were shown as a consistent tendency for both DSB and cell death endpoints, suggesting that radiation-induced intercellular communication is of importance in advanced radiotherapy dose-distributions such as with intensity-modulated radiotherapy. |
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Bibliography: | PMB-111429.R2 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0031-9155 1361-6560 |
DOI: | 10.1088/1361-6560/abf011 |