Re: Total Body Irradiation

["Philippe Duport" <pduport@home.com>]

You may find some interesting information in the following papers:

Kiyohoko Sakamoto et al.  Fundamental and clinical studies on cancer control
with total or upper body half body irradiation.  J. Jpn. Soc. Ther. Radiol.
Oncol. Vol 9: 161-175, 1997

Y. Takai et al.  Anti-tumor effect of low dose total (or half) body
irradiatio and changes of the functional subset of peripheral blood
lymphocytes in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients after TBI (HBI).  in
"Low-dose
irradiation and biological defense mechanisms" - Proc. Intern. Conf. on low
dose irradiation and biological defense mechanisms, Kioto, Japan, July 1992,
pp 113-116.

N.C. Choi et al.  Low dose fractionated whole body irradiation in the
treatment of advanced non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.  Cancer, Vol. 43:1636-1642,
1979.

J.T. Chaffey et al.  Total body irradiation as treatment for lymphosarcoma.
Int. J. Radiaion Oncology, Vol. 1, 399:405.

Philippe Duport
International Centre for Low Dose Radiation Research
Insitute of the Environment
University of Ottawa
pduport@uottawa.ca


----- Original Message -----
From: Harmon, Charles D <cdharmo@sandia.gov>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 10:54 AM
Subject: Total Body Irradiation


> What can anyone tell me about a cancer treatment called TBI (Total Body
> Irradiation)?
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