Small field boost for head and neck cancer.
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Oropharyngeal candidiasis and resistance to antifungal drugs in patients receiving radiation for head and neck cancer
BACKGROUND: Oropharyngeal candidiasis is a common infection in patient receiving radiotherapy for head and neck cancer. Accurate and rapid identification of candida species is very important in clinical laboratory, because the incidence of candidiasis continues to rise after radiotherapy. The genus Candida has about 154 species that show different level of resistance to antifungal drugs and hav...
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Purpose/Objective(s): Treatment delay is a significant impediment to effective cancer management and could potentially impact disease progression and survival, especially in Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) patients who are often diagnosed with locally advanced stage disease. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of patient and tumor characteristics on time-to-treatment (TTT) from dia...
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Most head and neck cancers are squamous cell carcinomas that develop in the upper aerodigestive epithelium after exposure to carcinogens such as tobacco and alcohol. Human papillomavirus has also been strongly implicated as a causative agent in a subset of these cancers. The complex anatomy and vital physiological role of the tumour-involved structures dictate that the goals of treatment are no...
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Head and neck cancer is traditionally thought of as being a disease associated with alcohol and tobacco abuse and deprivation. It was the fourth most common cancer in males in Scotland in 2000 and just over 1,000 cases were diagnosed in 2007. As smoking becomes less prevalent, a fall in the incidence of head and neck cancer could be anticipated; however, increasing evidence of other aetiologica...
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عنوان ژورنال: Japanese jornal of Head and Neck Cancer
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1883-9878,0911-4335
DOI: 10.5981/jjhnc1974.21.171