Quality of Life of Postoperative Photon versus Proton Radiation Therapy for Oropharynx Cancer

PURPOSE: Quality of life (QOL) for patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell cancer is negatively affected by conventional radiation (RT) owing to radiation exposure to normal tissues. Proton therapy, via pencil beam scanning (PBS), can better spare many of these tissues, and may thereby improve QOL...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Sonam, Zhou, Olivia, Thompson, Reid, Gabriel, Peter, Chalian, Ara, Rassekh, Christopher, Weinstein, Gregory S., O'Malley, Bert W., Aggarwal, Charu, Bauml, Joshua, Cohen, Roger B., Lukens, J. Nicholas, Swisher-McClure, Samuel, Ghiam, Alireza F., Ahn, Peter H., Lin, Alexander
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Particle Therapy Co-operative Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6874189/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31773030
http://dx.doi.org/10.14338/IJPT-18-00032.1

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