CD8A and cancer: To confirm our first preclinical and retrospective studies on the correlation of radiation-induced CD4 and CD8 T-lymphocyte apoptosis (RTLA) and late side effects after RT (Ozsahin et al, 1997), we assessed prospectively RTLA by the prediction of individual intrinsic radiosensitivity of 399 consenting patients treated with curative RT for miscellaneous cancers (Ozsahin et al, 2003).