Analysis of markers in cervical tumour specimens before RT have shown that hypoxia (Fyles et al, 1998; Haensgen et al, 2001) as well as increased survival signalling through Her-2 (Lee et al, 2005), epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) or insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGFR) (Kim et al, 2006) are predictive for lack of RT response. The gene discussed is EGFR; the disease is uterine cervix neoplasm.