Addressing the Symptoms or Fixing the Problem? Developing Countermeasures against Normal Tissue Radiation Injury

The successful development of countermeasures for radiation-induced damage to normal tissue could potentially benefit a broad range of populations and conditions. At one end of the spectrum are patients in a therapeutic setting where prevention or mitigation of acute and delayed normal tissue effects might improve survival; an improved therapeutic ratio would offer clinicians the opportunity to raise radiation dose limitations, thereby...