A novel anti-cancer therapeutic strategy to target autophagy accelerates radiation-associated atherosclerosis

Autophagy inhibition is a novel therapeutic strategy suggested for patients with advanced cancer, especially those who underwent radiation therapy. In the present study, we investigated whether autophagy inhibitors accelerate the progression of radiation-associated atherosclerosis (RAA).

Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics - September 13, 2020 Category: Radiology Authors: Ruosen Yuan, Zhe Sun, Jiali Cai, Xiaoxiao Yang, Weifeng Zhang, Caizhe Wu, Yejiao Shen, Anwen yin, Xia Wang, Xuwei Cai, Xiaolong Fu, Linghong Shen, Ben He Source Type: research