GUO Chuanling WANG Jufang JIN Xiaodong WEI Wei YANG Jianshe LI Wenjian. Different tumor cells irradiated with 12C6+ ion beams show special advantages of tumor therapy with heavy ions[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2006, (8): 587-591.
GUO Chuanling WANG Jufang JIN Xiaodong WEI Wei YANG Jianshe LI Wenjian. Different tumor cells irradiated with 12C6+ ion beams show special advantages of tumor therapy with heavy ions[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2006, (8): 587-591.DOI:
Different tumor cells irradiated with 12C6+ ion beams show special advantages of tumor therapy with heavy ions
The study was performed to investigate the feasibility and advantages of tumor therapy with heavy ions by observing the radiosensitivity and its discrepancy for two kinds of human malignant tumor cell line after respectively irradiated with 60Coγ-rays and 12C6+ ions with high LET. After exposed to 60Coγ-rays and 12C6+ ions
cell survival of two human carcinoma cell lines
SMMC-7721 and A375
was determined by an in vitro clonogenic assay. The survival fractions of cells irradiated with 12C6+ were considerably lower than those of cells irradiated with y-rays in both single irradiation and dividual irradiation. For cells irradiated with heavy ions
there was an evidently decreasing discrepancy of radiosensitivity and there was not an obviously increasing survival as dividually irradiated. The assay showed that heavy ions with high LET could kill tumor cells more efficiently and decrease the discrepancy of radiosensitivity between different cell lines
as well as lead a lower repair of cells. Associated with the depth-dose curve of heavy ions
tumor therapy with heavy ions demonstrates special advantages.