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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2008 Nov 1;72(3):918–926. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.06.1925

Table 1.

Tumor doubling times derived from a single parameter, monoexponential tumor growth equation y = e(αt)

TUMORS <0.4 g TD (days) sem (days) R2 Mann-Whitney rank sum test *
5×7 Gy 21.0 1.4 0.92 0.033
20 Gy fast 12.8 0.9 0.79 0.847
20 Gy slow 12.0 0.6 0.90 0.063

TUMORS >0.4 g

5×7 Gy 14.6 1.0 0.83
20 Gy fast 14.5 0.6 0.92
20 Gy slow 14.8 0.8 0.91

NT controls 3.6 0.2 0.87

*

P values comparing growth curves of tumors <0.4 g and tumors >0.4 g.