The treatment of head and neck cancer by radiotherapy has undergone significant evolution over recent years. Modern protocols combine highly conformal intensity‐modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) with ...
Oral stents have emerged as a valuable adjunct in the radiotherapy of head and neck cancer, allowing clinicians to displace and immobilise non-target tissues, thereby reducing radiation exposure to ...
In definitive radiotherapy, reducing the elective dose from 50 Gy to 43 Gy was safe and did not significantly increase the risk for recurrence in electively irradiated lymph nodes among patients with ...
A Phase III clinical trial including patients at the University of Oklahoma found that proton therapy improved survival and ...
A recent study found higher incidences of exposed bone and osteoradionecrosis in patients with head and neck cancer who underwent dental extractions soon after radiotherapy, with the risk particularly ...
HPV status, particularly combined p16 and HPV positivity, is vital for patient selection in de-escalation strategies for ...
Recent results from the phase III NRG Oncology RTOG 0920 (NRG-RTOG 0920) trial assessing postoperative radiotherapy with or without concurrent cetuximab for selected patients with squamous cell cancer ...
More people with head and neck cancer in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) may be able to access radiotherapy, after research carried out by the IAEA showed that fewer but higher doses of ...
A small prospective study from Taiwan showed that olfactory function begins to deteriorate at a radiation therapy dose of 22 Gy in patients with head and neck cancer. Only 17% of patients developed ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Survival outcomes did not differ for patients with HNSCC who received radiotherapy with carboplatin-paclitaxel ...
Over the last few decades, significant improvements have been made in the radiotherapy (RT) treatment of head and neck malignancies. The progressive introduction of intensity-modulated RT and the use ...