(b) Assume the tumour to be treated has a ?-coefficient that is very small such that it can be safely ignored (this actually turns out to be a reasonable assumption in certain types of tumours), and that the prescribed dose to cure it is 35 Gy. Tumour “cure” is defined in this case as the killing of 99.99% of the malignant cells. Compute ? for this tumour (in Gy?1). Gy?1
(c) Prostate cancer cells have a ? ? 0 and an ? = 0.260 Gy?1. Is it possible that the patient in this case is being treated for prostate cancer? (Consider this to be possible if ? is within 4% of your computed ? above.)
(b) Assume the tumour to be treated has a ?-coefficient that is very small such that it can be safely ignored (this actually turns out to be a reasonable assumption in certain types of tumours), and that the prescribed dose to cure it is 35 Gy. Tumour “cure” is defined in this case as the killing of 99.99% of the malignant cells. Compute ? for this tumour (in Gy?1). Gy?1
(c) Prostate cancer cells have a ? ? 0 and an ? = 0.260 Gy?1. Is it possible that the patient in this case is being treated for prostate cancer? (Consider this to be possible if ? is within 4% of your computed ? above.)
. (b) Assume the tumour to be treated has a ?-coefficient that is very small such that it can be safely ignored (this actually turns out to be a reasonable assumption in certain types of tumours), and that the prescribed dose to cure it is 35 Gy.
(b) Assume the tumour to be treated has a ?-coefficient that is very small such that it can be safely ignored (this actually turns out to be a reasonable assumption in certain types of tumours), and that the prescribed dose to cure it is 35 Gy. Tumour “cure” is defined in this case as the killing of 99.99% of the malignant cells. Compute ? for this tumour (in Gy?1). Gy?1
(c) Prostate cancer cells have a ? ? 0 and an ? = 0.260 Gy?1. Is it possible that the patient in this case is being treated for prostate cancer? (Consider this to be possible if ? is within 4% of your computed ? above.)




