SP-0204: New techniques in brachytherapy for head and neck
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The role of brachytherapy in head and neck cancer.
By precision dose delivery to a well-defined target, brachytherapy fulfills the complementary goals of delivering sufficient dose for tumor cell kill while sparing normal adjacent structures. The unique properties of this modality, either used alone or implemented in a combined modality setting with surgery or external-beam irradiation, offer an ideal means of enhancing the therapeutic ratio by...
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiotherapy and Oncology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0167-8140
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(16)31453-0