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In the second and third decades of this century the French school at the Curie Foundation, Paris, under the direction of Regaud, and also Coutard, who was a chief of the X-ray department, brought radiotherapy to a new basis. Clinical radiobiology was the main factor which enabled the change in the radiologic treatment of cancer. The X-ray doses were always measured, but the reaction of the normal tissue and the shrinking of the tumor were decisive for the final dose.
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Zuppinger, A. (1980). Clinical Radiobiology. In: Zuppinger, A., Bataini, J.P., Irigaray, J.M., Chu, F. (eds) High Energy Electrons in Radiation Therapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67727-4_9
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