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The following represent overviews of radiation and cancer biology that are recommended:
Rosenstein BS, Chapter 2. The Biologic Basis of Radiotherapy: in Handbook of Radiation
Oncology: Basic Principles and Clinical Protocols. Haffty B and Wilson L, Eds. Jones and
Bartlett Publishers, Sudbury MA, 2009
Rosenstein BS, Chapter 3. Molecular Radiobiology: in Handbook of Radiation Oncology: Basic
Principles and Clinical Protocols. Haffty B and Wilson L, Eds. Jones and Bartlett
Publishers, Sudbury MA, 2009
McBride WH and Withers R, Chapter 2. Biological Basis of Radiation Therapy. pp. 76
108, in Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology, 5
th
Ed. Halperin EC, Perez CA,
Brady LW, et al., Eds., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2007
Baumann M, Cordes N, Hasse M and Zips D, Chapter 3. Molecular Cancer and Radiation Biology.
pp. 109-125, in Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology, 5
th
Ed. Halperin EC, Perez
CA, Brady LW, et al., Eds., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2007
Jain RK and Kozak KR, Chapter 4. Molecular Pathophysiology of Tumors, pp.126-141, in
Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology, 5
th
Ed. Halperin EC, Perez CA, Brady LW,
et al., Eds., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2007
Zeman EM, Chapter 1. Biologic Basis of Radiation Oncology, pp. 1-46, in Clinical Radiation
Oncology, Second Edition. Gunderson LL and Tepper JE, Eds. Churchill Livingstone, New
York, 2007 (Third Edition due in 2010)
Willers H, Held KD. Introduction to clinical radiation biology. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 20:1-
24, 2006. PubMed
Bernier J, Hall EJ and Giaccia A, Radiation Oncology: A Century of Achievements. Nat Rev Cancer
4: 737-747, 2004. PubMed
Constine LS, Milano MT, Friedman D et al. Late Effects of Cancer Treatment on Normal Tissues
pp. 320-355, in Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology, 5
th
Ed. Halperin EC, Perez
CA, Brady LW, et al., Eds., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2007
Dewey W and Bedford J, Chapter 1. Radiobiologic Principles., pp. 3-30 in Textbook of Radiation
Oncology, 2nd Ed. Leibel SA and Phillips TL, Eds. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 2004
Section 1. Cancer Biology in Cancer Medicine, 6th ed. Kufe DW, Holland JF and Frei E, Eds., BC
Decker, Hamilton, Ont., 2003
Note: Those whose primary language is Spanish may find a new Spanish language Radiation
Oncology textbook to be of value:
N Urdaneta, A Vera, R E Peschel, and L H Wilson, Radiotheripa Oncologia, Enfoque
Multidisciplinario. This textbook includes chapters reviewing different aspects of radiobiology,
radiologic physics, radiation protection, and radiation epidemiology, as well as different areas of
clinical radiation oncology. Editorial Disinlimed, Columbia, 2009.