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G1 checkpoint

• Not important for intrinsic radiosensitivity

• To single doses!

• Usually altered in cancer

• Important for avoiding mutations

• Tumor cells and normal cells proliferate differently after IR

• May lead to a permanent G1 arrest in normal cells

(senescence/differentiation)

• Normal tissue tolerance