Published June 2010 | Version v1
Report

Heavy ion radiation-induced mammary tumors and their prevention

  • 1. National Inst. of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Chiba (Japan)

Description

The aim of this research is to investigate whether heavy ion radiation cause mammary tumors in rats of lactation period and to find useful protectors against the incidence of the mammary tumors. This year, we have continued the irradiation experiment to study the radiation dose dependent mammary tumor formation. We totally irradiated 23-24 rats for each group (0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0 Gy) and found that the incidence of mammary tumors saturated at 0.5 Gy. Using this dose, we began the experiments to examine the protecting effect of amifostine against heavy ion radiation-induced mammary tumors. (author)

Part of:
2009 annual report of the research project with heavy ions at NIRS-HIMAC

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Title
2009 annual report of the research project with heavy ions at NIRS-HIMAC
Imprint Pagination
338 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 42-43
Report number
NIRS-M--234

Optional Information

Notes
This record replaces 45037349
Secondary number(s)
HIMAC--134