Animal Models for Radiotherapy Research: All (Animal) Models Are Wrong but Some Are Useful

Affiliations

¹ Patrick G. Johnston Centre for Cancer Research, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT9 7AE, UK.
² University of Rochester Medical Centre, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.

Editorial

Karl T Butterworth et al. Cancers (Basel). 2021.

. 2021 Mar 16;13(6):1319.

doi: 10.3390/cancers13061319.

¹ Patrick G. Johnston Centre for Cancer Research, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT9 7AE, UK.
² University of Rochester Medical Centre, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.

Abstract

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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