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High dose interstitial brachytherapy for treatment of carcinoma of the lip as an alternative to surgery: a case report

Lip cancer (LC) is the most common cancer of the oral cavity and is the second most common in the head and neck. Brachytherapy (BT) is a good treatment option for this type of cancer because it administers high doses of radiation to the target. BT has similar cure and survival rates as surgery for t...

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Autores principales: Torres-Quispe, Percy, Fernández-Rodríguez, Lissett Jeanette, Zhang, Yaowen, Rovirosa-Casino, Angeles
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34824620
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2021.1297
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author Torres-Quispe, Percy
Fernández-Rodríguez, Lissett Jeanette
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description Lip cancer (LC) is the most common cancer of the oral cavity and is the second most common in the head and neck. Brachytherapy (BT) is a good treatment option for this type of cancer because it administers high doses of radiation to the target. BT has similar cure and survival rates as surgery for the same type of cancer, but it often produces more favourable aesthetic results, especially when the tumour is treated in its early stages. We present a case of a patient diagnosed with stage II lower LC who refused surgical treatment. Instead, high-dose-rate interstitial BT was performed with (192)Ir. A 2-year post-treatment follow-up indicated there were neither serious complications nor recurrence of cancer during that period.
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spelling pubmed-85805872021-11-24 High dose interstitial brachytherapy for treatment of carcinoma of the lip as an alternative to surgery: a case report Torres-Quispe, Percy Fernández-Rodríguez, Lissett Jeanette Zhang, Yaowen Rovirosa-Casino, Angeles Ecancermedicalscience Case Report Lip cancer (LC) is the most common cancer of the oral cavity and is the second most common in the head and neck. Brachytherapy (BT) is a good treatment option for this type of cancer because it administers high doses of radiation to the target. BT has similar cure and survival rates as surgery for the same type of cancer, but it often produces more favourable aesthetic results, especially when the tumour is treated in its early stages. We present a case of a patient diagnosed with stage II lower LC who refused surgical treatment. Instead, high-dose-rate interstitial BT was performed with (192)Ir. A 2-year post-treatment follow-up indicated there were neither serious complications nor recurrence of cancer during that period. Cancer Intelligence 2021-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8580587/ /pubmed/34824620 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2021.1297 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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High dose interstitial brachytherapy for treatment of carcinoma of the lip as an alternative to surgery: a case report
title High dose interstitial brachytherapy for treatment of carcinoma of the lip as an alternative to surgery: a case report
title_full High dose interstitial brachytherapy for treatment of carcinoma of the lip as an alternative to surgery: a case report
title_fullStr High dose interstitial brachytherapy for treatment of carcinoma of the lip as an alternative to surgery: a case report
title_full_unstemmed High dose interstitial brachytherapy for treatment of carcinoma of the lip as an alternative to surgery: a case report
title_short High dose interstitial brachytherapy for treatment of carcinoma of the lip as an alternative to surgery: a case report
title_sort high dose interstitial brachytherapy for treatment of carcinoma of the lip as an alternative to surgery: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34824620
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2021.1297
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