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Relationship between surviving fractions using the colony method, the LD/sub 50/, and the growth delay after irradiation of human melanoma cells grown as multicellular spheroids. [/sup 137/Cs]

Journal Article · · Radiat. Res.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2307/3575565· OSTI ID:6565266
Survival of human melanoma Na 11 cells after ..gamma.. irradiation was measured using three different endpoints: clonogenicity of single cells isolated from spheroids either before or after treatment, probability of cure by sterilization of 50% of the spheroids, and growth delay. No significant difference in radiosensitivity was found between single cells and cells from spheroids. A close relationship was found between the cell yield and the theoretical number of cells per spheroid. Good agreement was found between the LD/sub 50/ survival curve and that from monodispersed cells. When growth delay was plotted against survival a similar conclusion was reached, but with somewhat less precision, indicating that other factors must contribute to regrowth. The multicellular spheroid culture, which permits multiendpoint evaluation of survival, should provide a valid assay of human tumor cell sensitivity to radiation and chemotherapeutic treatments.
Research Organization:
Institut de Radiobiologie Clinique, Villejuif France
OSTI ID:
6565266
Journal Information:
Radiat. Res.; (United States), Journal Name: Radiat. Res.; (United States) Vol. 85:2; ISSN RAREA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English