“…The studies have been concentrated on 5 different lines of xenografts of similar histology, which originated from tumours in 5 different patients. These xenograft tumour lines show individuality with respect to: characteristic growth patterns ; vascular structures (Solesvik et al, 1982); and, X-ray survival curves following irradiation in vitro (Rofstad & Brustad, 1981 Five different human melanomas (E.E., E.F., G.E., M.F., V.N. ), which each were derived from metastases of patients at The Norwegian Radium Hospital, were studied in the present work.…”