Reduced volume SIB-IMRT/IGRT to head and neck cancer in elderly and frail patients: outcome and toxicity

BACKGROUND: Especially elderly and frail patients have a limited ability to compensate for side effects of a radical treatment of head and neck malignancies. Limiting the target volume to the macroscopic disease, without prophylactic nodal irradiation, might present a feasible approach for these pat...

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Autores principales: Straube, Christoph, Pigorsch, Steffi U., Scherb, Hagen, Wilkens, Jan J., Bier, Henning, Combs, Stephanie E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27716349
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-016-0711-x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27716349
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-016-0711-x

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