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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...
Autores principales: | Straube, Christoph, Pigorsch, Steffi U., Scherb, Hagen, Wilkens, Jan J., Bier, Henning, Combs, Stephanie E. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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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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