| Literature DB >> 21915155 |
Jerimy C Polf, Lawrence F Bronk, Wouter H P Driessen, Wadih Arap, Renata Pasqualini, Michael Gillin.
Abstract
The development and use of sensitizing agents to improve the effectiveness of radiotherapy have long been sought to improve our ability to treat cancer. In this letter, we have studied the relative biological effectiveness of proton beam radiotherapy on prostate tumor cells with and without internalized gold nanoparticles. The effectiveness of proton radiotherapy for the killing of prostate tumor cells was increased by approximately 15%-20% for those cells containing internalized gold nanoparticles.Entities:
Year: 2011 PMID: 21915155 PMCID: PMC3170386 DOI: 10.1063/1.3589914
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Appl Phys Lett ISSN: 0003-6951 Impact factor: 3.791