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In tissues exposed to radiation curves can be drawn of damage versus dose. Tumours and normal tissues have different curves such that a dose which causes 90% tumour damage only damages 60% of normal tissue. The aim of radiobiology is to separate the curves.
The following strategies are employed to modify the damage:
Thus:
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