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Thank you for visiting our website. We are a relatively small lab with big ideas. We are part of a much larger group of investigators known collectively as the LLUMC Molecular Radiation Biology Laboratories. It is our hope that this website will educate, communicate, and incite scientific debate. As the PI of our little group, I hope to post our data and discuss potential mechanisms, consequences, and countermeasures. With a bit of luck we'll all learn something. The links to the left include our merry band as well as collaborating investigators and laboratories. The links to the right include our archive and blogroll. The banner above will always bring you back to the main page page. Take a look around and please feel free to leave a comment on our blog (try to keep it civil and constructive) or shoot us an e-mail. - Michael " Ubertramp " Pecaut
Radiation Research Society Meeting
Posted by: Ubertramp on 2010.05.03
Categories & Tags: Gamma Radiation,Low Dose Radiation,Macrophage,Oxidative Burst,Radiation,Society Meeting
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We recently submitted an abstract for the annual Radiation Research Society meeting. This year it is in Maui. I’m not sure if I’ll have the money to go or not but several of us at the lab are planning to attend. Worst case, I may send my poster with one of them. The work for this abstract was done almost exclusively by my tech, Erben Bayeta, and our summer student Cory Pan. Cory is planning on returning to our lab this summer to do some follow up studies. I’m sure we have more than enough to keep him busy. 
Celso Perez has joined us to start doing some work in his spare time (he’s actually our lab manager). He should have some data on a third cell line by the time the symposium comes around. I’ve attached some of the data we are presenting to this post. Read More..
ASTRO: Proton Radiation Linked to Lower Risk of Second Malignancy
Posted by: Ubertramp on 2008.09.27
Categories & Tags: Cancer Risk,Protons,Radiation,Radiotherapy,Secondary Malignancies,Society Meeting
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This just in: .
BOSTON, Sept. 22 — Proton therapy may cut the risk of a second malignancy by half compared with conventional radiation treatment, results of a retrospective comparison suggested.
Almost 13% of patients treated with photon energy developed second malignancies compared with 6.4% of those treated with proton-based radiation, Nancy Tarbell, M.D., of Harvard, reported at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology meeting here.
The rest of the article can be found here. I still can’t get a link to the actual paper or abstract, though.
