Bilateral Elective Nodal Radiation Increases Narcotic Requirement But Not Patient-Reported Pain During Head and Neck Cancer Radioation Therapy
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[Radiation therapy for head and neck cancer].
Radiation therapy is the first choice of treatment for most of the early squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Conventional radiotherapy however, contributes to the high local control rates only for carcinoma of the glottic larynx and the nasopharynx. Squamous cell carcinoma of the other sites cannot be sterilized easily only by external beam radiation therapy alone. Chemoradiotherapy, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0360-3016
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2018.07.818