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The effect of local breast radiotherapy on circulating CD34 + cells

  • Nehad M. Alajez
  • , Wei Wang
  • , Debashis Biswas
  • , Amy Teh
  • , Robert Sutherland
  • , Melania Pintilie
  • , Mark Minden
  • , Hans Messner
  • , Anthony Fyles
  • , Mary Gospodarowicz
  • , Armand Keating
  • , Fei Fei Liu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The number of circulating CD34 + (hematopoietic stem) cells (HSCs) was observed to decline by 15% in breast cancer patients after starting adjuvant radiation therapy, regardless of age or preceding chemotherapy. These data demonstrate that local radiation therapy can profoundly affect HSC homeostasis, which might have a myriad of important implications.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)304-307
Number of pages4
JournalRadiotherapy and Oncology
Volume100
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Breast cancer
  • Hematopoietic stem cells
  • Homing
  • Radiation therapy

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