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Last name: BALOSSO
First name: Jacques
International audience
International audience
Considering intracranial tumours, only few indications of protontherapy, such as chordoma, chondrosarcoma or uveal melanoma, are uniformly approved in the world. Other indications, excluding paediatric pathologies, are still debated. The aim of this article is to describe the rationale for the use of protonbeam irradiation for meningioma,...
PurposeLinear energy transfer (LET) plays an important role in radiation response. Recently, the radiation-induced nucleo-shuttling of ATM from cytoplasm to the nucleus was shown to be a major event of the radiation response that permits a normal DNA double-strand break (DSB) recognition and repair. Here, we aimed to verify the relevance of the...