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Current Cancer Therapy Reviews

Editor-in-Chief

ISSN (Print): 1573-3947
ISSN (Online): 1875-6301

Review of Postoperative and Elective Nodal Irradiation in Head and Neck Cancer

Author(s): Daniel M. Trifiletti, Austin Sim, David D. Wilson and Paul W. Read

Volume 10, Issue 4, 2014

Page: [291 - 304] Pages: 14

DOI: 10.2174/157339471004150407125249

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Abstract

Radiotherapy plays a critical role in the nodal management of patients with head and neck cancer. The indications, dose fractionation schedules, and results of postoperative radiation therapy (PORT) and elective nodal management (ENI) in various head and neck cancers are reviewed and summarized with common themes identified.

Keywords: Elective irradiation, head and neck cancer, lymph nodes, postoperative irradiation, skin cancer.


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