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Individual variation in normal tissue sensitivity

Variation in response harder to observe with mega-voltage beams

because of skin sparing

Could be exploited:

To

avoid toxicity

in sensitive patients

≤ 5% of patients

To

dose escalate

resistant patients

40% of patients - dose escalate up to ~15%

Other methods to measure normal tissue response are needed, to

produce more & better dose response data